Yup. The ever-increasingly-farcical organization that is the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) have begun to prosecute people who have ripped their legally purchased music CDs onto their computers. I came across this Washington Post article via Graham Lenihan’s blog. Technically it makes everybody who owns an mp3 player a criminal.
If only they’d make anybody who buys a James Blunt album a criminal, full stop, the world would be a better place.
January 3, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Seriously?
That is insane.
Can’t wait to tell my mammy she’s a criminal now
January 4, 2008 at 11:24 pm
It does sound too crazy to be true doesn’t it. Maybe sometime in the next decade the music industry will actually give in and join the 21st century.
January 10, 2008 at 12:04 am
Fine observation, on the James Blunt, pish.
January 10, 2008 at 12:19 am
Hi BD, I’m loving your last.fm profile, you know good music
January 11, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Does that really mean, you know good music?