According to the beloved RIAA, if you take a CD you bought and rip it to listen to on your computer or iPod (gosh, not your zune!), then you’re violating copyright law. And they are dead serious (despite their insane viewpoint on this and many issues).. they are suing people, claiming in court, that people who have bought a CD and ripped it are breaking laws. It’s so sad that they are so totally focused on suing and alienating their customers, rather than truly understanding their customers and giving them what they want for a fair price. The rules have changed, music is now intended to be digital, easily transferred from device to device (pc, iPod, tv media system, car, etc) and if the music industry would enable this, customers would appreciate it and happily pay for the content.
But as the water leaks out of the music industry boat (you could argue this is because the current content sucks), the industry just wants to plug the hole with its customers, while a perfectly good new boat awaits. Embrace the digital world we live in, and that doesn’t mean create layers of DRM to shackle customers either.
In other worlds, I watched some of Rushmore on tv yesterday, such a great movie.. so I was just reading the trivia about it.. if you haven’t seen it, do so!
