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Posted by Chris Leckness on February 17, 2006 – 2:30 pm  Share
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antiriaa-thumb.jpg The RIAA has put plenty of limits and laws down on the industry and as far as sharing music illegally, I agree with them to a point.

But now it seems that they are going even further with their rules and pushing the public (and me) even more by trying to put in place even stricter rules. Their newest one is that they do not think we should be able to rip our own CDs to our computer/MP3 player (which before they said was fine)!

Now common, this has just gone too far in my mind. I for one never use CDs anymore (except to buy them and rip them to my computer) as digital music is just so much more convenient. It is the future and the future is now in a sense as most people are switching to digital music. You can play it anywhere (car, stereo, computer, office, on the go) and it is instantaneous to play songs and music from your library (plus you can find songs easier).

But all this aside, the RIAA still wants to stop people from ripping songs to their PC/MP3 Player. In my mind it will not easily happen and should not happen at all as digital is the future. In a way it’s like the RIAA saying that we cannot move to CDs since they want us to be using tapes still. But instead of CDs it’s our PCs and instead of tapes it’s CDs.

My biggest worry is that they will start making CDs you cannot play in your computer at all (like some are from Europe). This makes it so you can only play them in your CD player and totally would make me at least not buy it. I need digital music as does the world, it’s here to stay so leave us who are doing it legally alone RIAA! 

You can see more on this over at Gizmodo.

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  • Me too
    I, for 1 am about fed up with the music industry trying to halt technology to protect their control. Does anybody remember the mafia style way the industry started - artists signing onerous deals to get access to the production and distribution system?

    Nothing wrong with protecting artists. But don't forget that these folks are protecting companies that profit from artists, not artists.

    Time for a new technology friendly business model. Enough of the rich old farts covering their backsides.
  • Justin Noland
    Figured this would happen sooner or later. I actually stopped DLing music illegally because I didn't want to hose arists out of their living. I destroyed my drive and have been cold turkey since early october. But this, this is too far. IF this catches on, with I pray to God it won't, no one will buy into it. Digital music is everywhere, and just because some corporation ruled by 6 figure fat cat limousine executives say I cant play my CD in my computer, artists will stop supporting it. Who wants to buy a CD they cant play anywhere besides CD players which have been dead for years? Come on, this won't last. And lets just say it does, well in which case the RIAA will basically die, which would be a nice turn of events. The RIAA can go screw itself because they have become so loaded with DRM B.S. that they have lost all credibility. The day they go under will be one marked as celebratory on my calendar forever.

    I urge anyone to offer any support for the RIAA on this issue. I am interested to see how anyone in their right mind could possibly defend this?
  • me
    Actually they already have made CDs you cannot listen to, in your personal computers for the U.S. I bought a jazz CD about one month ago, the guys name is Chris Botti if i remember correctly. It played fine after a few seconds in my cars CD player, but when i put it into my desktop and the work laptop, both times it just wouldnt play. The autoplau feature turned up nothing, i had Windows XP try and do a search to figure it out, which just led me to some Microsoft webpage with errors on it, and my friends xbox wouldnt play it either.

    Then i though, ok ill just rip the songs to MP3's and listen to them in my ipod, since thats where ill listen to them most anyways [when i ride the train], but no software i use would even find the music! Horrible thing they have done and i cannot take it back because of the store i bought it from doesnt accept opened music CD's. [but it is defective, i bought the goddamn thing!] God bless America and god bless our corporations. They make living worth while! :]
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