RIAA Unfairly Maligned? Give Me a Break.
Stan Schroeder,
Mashable,
Jan 03, 2008
After last week's story asserting that the RIAA had declared the copying of songs to your personal computer to be illegal, a raft of stories appeared to the effect that th RIAA had ben misquoted. TechDirt, for example, said the Washington Post had "flubbed" its story. "It's important to note that there's a difference between unauthorized and illegal," writes Mike Masnick. But as Mashable writer Stan Schroeder responds, "how hard is it for RIAA to clearly say: no, we're not going after personal copies?" Not hard at all, but the best the RIAA can say is that such "unauthorized" copying "won't usually raise concerns." It seems pretty clear to me that the RIAA thinks that copying to one's own computer is a privilege that it grants at its discretion, and that it can revoke - and file suit over - at its pleasure.
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