now its illegal to rip CDs to your computer...

[guns_n_motley]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122800693.html

Fuck this!! fuck the record companies!

[Verse Chorus Verse]

This crap is getting taken way too far now.

[*Timothy*]

The industry is on a dieing leg . So , they are grasping for anything to stay afloat.

[mrlee]

oops. looks like i better delete my god knows how many gigs of music stores on my PC for easy play. rather than lumbering my CD collection out all the time 

[greendog]

Suprised? No.

It's the kind of shit I always expect from such companies.

[norway]

Wouldn't that be privately owned companies doing infringements towards your freedom?

[von]

Once again, like I've been saying for more than eight years now, it's time to go back to vinyl.

"We're unhappy that technology has allowed you to rip off our cheaply made and manufactured, imperfect and outdated 80s product, but we'll continue to release music in that format in the hopes that you'll heed our warnings and stop."

vinyl > CDs > mp3s > tapes

[Bodhi]

this will go nowhere...the days of a hard copy of an album are dead....they are grasping at straws

[tim_m]

Well it turns out this guy was actually sharing the music on p2p programs too.

[*Timothy*]

Well it turns out this guy was actually sharing the music on p2p programs too.

Did the artical say that? If it did I must have missed it . No fucking wonder he was getting sued.

[Irish gunner II]

I havent read the link but if you buy the album then you are entitled to do whatever you want to with it IMO.

[Axl4Prez2004]

I havent read the link but if you buy the album then you are entitled to do whatever you want to with it IMO.

just my opinion, I disagree.

[tim_m]

Well it turns out this guy was actually sharing the music on p2p programs too.

Did the artical say that? If it did I must have missed it . No fucking wonder he was getting sued.

Its not in that particular article its in a follow up here. http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/30/riaa-not-suing-over-cd-ripping-still-kinda-being-jerks-about-it/

[tim_m]

I havent read the link but if you buy the album then you are entitled to do whatever you want to with it IMO.

just my opinion, I disagree.

I think you should be able to listen to it in anyway you wish, but i agree you shouldn't be able to do as you please with it. If he was just ripping it to his computer cause thats how he prefers to listen to it i think that should be ok. Unfortunately the law currently states otherwise.

[freedom78]

this will go nowhere...the days of a hard copy of an album are dead....they are grasping at straws

Hey, that's what I would've said! 

Anyway...fuck the music industry.  Their resistance to change and pushing of crappy products makes them deserving of their pending downfall.

[Verse Chorus Verse]

I'm going to miss the CD. I don't want to have to go digital. Fucking computers screws up too much.

[fuckin crazy]

The industry is on a dieing leg . So , they are grasping for anything to stay afloat.

They are scum. I'd be the first to toss them a bag of lead weights.

 This will never go anywhere, and they should be sanctioned heavily for wasting the Courts valuble time with this pathetic brief.

[mrlee]

i wish they could still manufacture CD's though. i preffer getting CD's for the bands i like alot, or classic albums.

i only download things i cant get or arnt into majorly.

[Axl4Prez2004]

I havent read the link but if you buy the album then you are entitled to do whatever you want to with it IMO.

just my opinion, I disagree.

I think you should be able to listen to it in anyway you wish, but i agree you shouldn't be able to do as you please with it. If he was just ripping it to his computer cause thats how he prefers to listen to it i think that should be ok. Unfortunately the law currently states otherwise.

I agree with you Timothy25. 

[Dr. Blutarsky]

The record companies want you to buy the same music twice. Once on CD then again on a digital download. It's greed - or a desperate attempt to save their slumping industry.