RIAA now says making backups is illegal

[Urban Ranger]

"Nor does the fact that permission to make a copy in particular circumstances is often or even routinely granted, necessarily establish that the copying is a fair use when the copyright owner withholds that authorization. In this regard, the statement attributed to counsel for copyright owners in the MGM v. Grokster case is simply a statement about authorization, not about fair use."

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So now making backups is not fair use anymore, according to them.

[Berzerker]

hmm...not surprised... I wonder if this means making copies of music and movies for personal use will be illegal. No mo Tivo? This is another example of punishing everyone to get at the criminals...or pirates...

[Imran Siddiqui]

I wonder if this means making copies of music and movies for personal use will be illegal.

Only when the RIAA starts making laws.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Berzerker
hmm...not surprised... I wonder if this means making copies of music and movies for personal use will be illegal.

Of course.

You have no rights, mere mortal.

[Zkribbler]

Make a back up, go to prison.

[SlowwHand]

They're displaying their posterior for all to see, again. Still.

[reismark]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
They're displaying their posterior for all to see, again. Still.

Do they really want my size 11 boot in there again?

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

I wonder if this means making copies of music and movies for personal use will be illegal.

Only when the RIAA starts making laws.

They bought the Republicans years ago and now get to write their own laws. It is the Republican way.

[Berzerker]

Only when the RIAA starts making laws.

Congress hasn't and never will pass laws to reflect RIAA opinions? Thats a relief, I dont even know what RIAA is, I just assumed it was some bureaucracy. I doubt Congress would go that far, I was just pointing out that consistency requires it.

[DaShi]

EFF isn't biased.

[Fake Boris]

That's tough luck for them, because most civilized countries have enshrined the right to make a backup in the law (meaning any clause claiming otherwise is void).

Actually, a good quantity of software distributed in Canada has illegal clauses in their EULA.

[Fake Boris]

The RIAA reminds me of the Roman Empire in its latest days. Their downfall is inevitable but still they're trying. Let them gesticulate like morons till they rot in hell.

[Datajack Franit]

Europe

[Last Conformist]

What annoys me about the likes of RIAA is that they seem to care nothing at all that their "solutions" punish honest folk more harshly than the pirates.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
The RIAA reminds me of the Roman Empire in its latest days. Their downfall is inevitable but still they're trying.

Quite. The Internet is very good at removing the middleman, and the RIAA is one big, fat, bloated, self-serving middleman.