RIAA Wants to Change Definition of “Fair Use”
These two articles on Ars Technica and the EFF tell the story.
I’ve had it with the RIAA. They have turned the music industry into a legal morass. Now they are trying to make it illegal to copy songs from a CD onto a portable music player. At this point, I consider purchasing music from an RIAA label to be more trouble than it is worth. What is the point of purchasing their music if it is illegal to use it? Any future music purchases I make will be for content that is licensed under a Creative Commons-style license. I have made a few purchases in the past at places like Magnatune, but now I will be dealing with companies like them exclusively.
The RIAA and their pals the MPAA can have their DMCA and their DRM, there are plenty of other things for me to spend my disposable income on.
