A New Low: RIAA extends music piracy laws

It seems the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) manages to make themselves look more and more like a joke every year. After the huge push to sweep away music piracy some of us felt we were safe. However, according to recent sources, the RIAA has cracked down on several people claiming that the music that they copied to their hard drive using a CD Ripping program is an illegal copy of copyrighted music. What becomes even more confusing is that Microsoft, whom we would all assume is well versed in copyright laws, has included a CD Ripping software program to copy music from your CD's to the hard drive of your Xbox 360.

UPDATE: Due to information claiming that the original source is innacurate, this is a rumor. Further information claims that the lawsuit is from illegal downloading not ripping CDs. However, there is some truth to CD Ripping being illegal.

[gamesR4fun]

Damn I h8 em
Realy burning your own cd's so you can listen to em on you mp3 player or whatever is a crime....

[Relin]

The music industry is scrambling to get new technology under their thumbs, and since it isn't working, they're throwing a litigation hissy-fit. It's sad.

[SonyDefenseForce]

"manages to make themselves look more and more like a joke every year."

after this Quote im glad im with a good Smart company like SONY. :)

[Boink]

sony is a big part of the RIAA, as well as the MPAA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

[Method]

Boink, you walked right into his bait.

[Boink]

my bad, I didn't realize he was making fun of fanboys

*boink stares in wonder at the egg on his face*

*edit
how did I get a disagree? LOL

have i got a stalker following me around disagreeing me now?! COOL!

That's what I call status here on N4G:)

[Mr_Showtime1]

as a gamer, reading a games website, i couldnt really care about the music industry and before anyone comments on why i am in this topic, i simply came to post this.

showtime

[RecSpec]

Everything that needs to be said about this topic is said in the South Park episode on illegal downloading.

[ironwolf]

http://www.washingtonpost.c...

It would seem that the RIAA is indeed intent on making sure the ripping of your own CDs to your own computer or MP3 player is acknowledged by the courts as illegal. I haven't a clue how they would catch anyone, though (can anyone say "Sony rootkit"?).

[SaiyanFury]

It's not illegal to rip music from your CDs. It's the same case as ROMs and emulators. As long as you own the CD, you can have the music on your HDD.