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Originally Posted by JvanEkris
This kind of madness makes me wonder: "how is the RIAA going to keep this position, while the rest of the world protects fair use?". What are they going to do when I (European citizin) enter the US when I have 2000+ legally ripped songs on my laptop?
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You'll probably be arrested. There's this place called Guantanamo where they send terrorists like you.
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They can't keep going on for ever protecting an outdated business-model and sueing paying customers.....
Jaap
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This is the only reason the RIAA exists - to protect a business model that is dying as we speak. Thankfully they're not representative of the American people as a whole and a number of people seem to have had enough including Judges and college legal departments. If you want to see how highly they are esteemed by people, search Slashdot.org for RIAA or MPAA and see what you find.
For an example - here
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/28/1958201
Interestingly, companies like Sony apparently make far more from selling hardware that allows you to rip music and their MP3 players than they do from the rights to music alone. And they're pretty much at the forefront of efforts to make fare use illegal. For reference,
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...-stealing.html So stop selling MP3 players with CD ripping software then! And sue Apple and Microsoft to take the capability to rip CDs away from iPod and Zune software.
And don't get me started on this latest Canadian stupidity which thankfully seems to be getting kicked out before it can get started -
http://www.blogto.com/tech/2007/12/fight_canadas_dmca/ And this in spite of the levy they, and others, have been paying for years on media like cassettes and blank CDs to recompense the studios for "losses".
Really, the cheek of these people beggars belief and leaves me almost speechless.