[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by rlauzon

I don't see anything pertaining to the Internet in that list.

I think this part covers digital copies to the court's satisfaction:

§ 106. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works

Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:

(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;

Note that the wording does not specify method of transmission, so it can apply to the Internet as well as anything else.

This is the part that notably also applied to people making tape copies of movies and music at home, which is why making your own tapes (or digital copies) is technically illegal. But as I've pointed out earlier, it has never been considered practical to prosecute that, except in cases where people made multiple copies and sold them at significant profit (or potentially cost the copyright owner significant profit).

Thanks to the internet, making uber-multiple copies and risking significant potential profit is now easier than ever, hence the RIAA and their insistence on following the letter of the law.