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Originally Posted by lhm1138  Hey, that's a really good point.
Can you imagine if the RIAA came up with its own music download site, and said "Hey, if you have old CDs that don't play anymore, enter the barcode at our site and you can download a 320kbps version for 25 cents a track." As much as they bitched about used CD sales and lost revenue, this could've been an excellent way to generate "lost sales". Most people are generally lazy or time-strapped and don't want to go through the hassle of ripping their CDs or searching torrents that might be the album, might be something else. |
And the very next day there'd be a website up listing the barcode number of every album ever made!
I'm often surprised when threads like this come up by the violent reaction against any kind of copyright enforcement efforts by the RIAA/others. One would imagine that there's a good few people here who derive their income from selling music so I don't know why there's quite so much sympathy for people who are being prosecuted for stealing music. Yes, in the case of the Kwik-Fit garage being prosecuted -as mentioned earlier -that is bordering on the ridiculous but I have a great deal less sympathy for somebody being prosecuted for sharing music over p2p networks, as is the case here.
The reality in this case appears to be that they are using the 'CD rip' argument as a means to go after somebody who is using Kazaa to illegally share music. I very much doubt that there is any intention whatsoever to prosecute somebody who is just ripping their CD collection to their iPod. It's just a legal technicality and I for one do not have much of a problem with that.