PCMech Forums - View Single Post - ripping cds to your iPod is not fair use ?

**pam123** · 02-16-2006, 07:34 PM

Here's what their lawyer said before the court last year : "The record companies, my clients, have said, for some time now, and it's been on their website for some time now, that it's perfectly lawful to take a CD that you've purchased, upload it onto your computer, put it onto your iPod."

You notice there's nothing here about you needing "authorization".

The DMCA, the change is their proposal for the upcoming re-write, is being used to whittle down your fair use rights as far as they think they can get away with.
E-mail your congress critter.

02-16-2006, 07:34 PM	#17
pam123 Computing Professor Staff Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 11,714	Here's what their lawyer said before the court last year : "The record companies, my clients, have said, for some time now, and it's been on their website for some time now, that it's perfectly lawful to take a CD that you've purchased, upload it onto your computer, put it onto your iPod." You notice there's nothing here about you needing "authorization". The DMCA, the change is their proposal for the upcoming re-write, is being used to whittle down your fair use rights as far as they think they can get away with. E-mail your congress critter. __________________ Asus M4A77D, 64 X2 6000+, 4 GB Corsair DDR2 800 ram, Radeon 5770.