Ok. Seriously? Ripping CDs that you BOUGHT is no longer fair use? Every time I think that they've absolutely, completely lost the plot, they manage to trump it with something even more ridiculous. Bravo recording industry! Take a bow. You are now officially the stupidest pack of morons on the planet. This has to be your crowning achievement.

So, let me get this straight. You claim that you're losing money, and that it's all because of the big bad sharewolf.

Right, ok.

So you try your damndest to outlaw file sharing, sue little girls and grandmas who merely breathe the word MP3, threaten the only people who are making you money off digital music (ie. Apple), release a non-stop stream of crap for years, infect your product with vicious trojan software, impose ridiculously restrictive rules on use, and now you want to say that buying a CD doesn't give you the right to copy it onto your iPod.

Um. Ok? I guess they don't want to make money? Ever?

It's the year 2006. People don't want to listen to music on a friggin' CD. CDs suck. They're big. They skip. They only hold 74 minutes of music TOPS. You can't write to them. Garbage.

But yet the RIAA really wants you to be trapped into using CDs. The absurd "customary historic use" bill would try to lock you into only existing business models and completely erase fair use. Yup. They can't pull their heads out of their asses and join the rest of us in the freakin' future, and so they want to make it illegal to not be a moron.

Besides the impossibility of trying to enforce their ludicrous fair use proposals, they just might succeed in alienating the last 3 people who actually side with them. Seriously, how many times can I say it: it's over. O-V-E-R. Done. Finished. Kaput! Fini!

You lost. Deal with it.

Don't make me have to say it again.

(I already told them once here: Earth to Music Industry: It's SO over.)

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Links:

EFF – Ripping CDs no longer fair use

EFF – Customary Historic Use

Ars Technica – Fair Use

Ars Technica – Customary Historic Use