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Originally Posted by Shaggy
What claims they make today? Do you have sources for the RIAA making current claims that ripping CDs is illegal?
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For two people who seem to agree on the fundamentals of what consumers deserve and can expect we seem awfully unable to agree on why we cannot have said fundamentals.
The fact that the RIAA has given up on CD ripping doesn't mean they changed their mind, just that they decided it wasn't worth pursuing (a feeling with which I can now accutely sympathize). Similarly, the fact that they did but
don't seems trivial and limited; relying on the "well, they haven't done it lately" to confer rights doesn't pass the sniff test.
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The DMCA was written to create difficulties interpreting these issues. Fair use exists under copyright, the DMCA tries to eliminate it. That's not clarity.
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Agreed after a fashion. DMCA was written by lobbyists for media groups who saw troubling issues in courts' decisions
vis-a-vis copyright and fair use. It attempts to "clarify" the issues in their favor. Its dissembling as to existing fair use rights is secondary.
My end all point? We need to lobby for changes to copyright law as a whole not pretend it's all OK simply because we can get away with it. That's my piece and I'll now quietly drag my dead horse out of this arena.