Those wacky, wacky music executives

[bladespark]

The RIAA insists that ripping your own CDs is stealing.

I have no idea what the logic behind that one is. I mean seriously... I think they're more than a little overboard about piracy, but at least there is some logic backing it, however fallacious the RIAA's interpretation of the cause and effect relationship between file sharing and the drop in profits they're experiencing may be. But WHERE is the logic here? You change the format of a song you have legally purchased and this is theft? Do they actually expect people to buy a song twice just to listen to it on their computer? I suppose they probably want you to buy it three times, once on CD, once for your PC, and once for the ipod! Oh, and a fourth time if you want to let your sister copy it onto her laptop to listen to in the other room. *rolls eyes* Loonies!

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[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

That gets a serious WTF from me.

Part of the reason I use iTunes is that I can put my CDs on and make mix tapes (well Cds) of stuff I want to listen to in the order I want to listen to it.

I don't know many people who go from "Voodoo Child" by Rogue Traders to "The Internet is for Porn" to Chopin to ELO "Hold on Tight"

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

He he he. Yeah. I have a few playlists like that, so I know what you mean. Just listening to one CD, in order, with just one artist on it, is boring!

Well, usually boring. I am on a Floyd kick right now, but Floyd is nearly as varied as some of my mixed playlists.

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

oh they would hate me. constantly burning CDs of music i downloaded? XD

[svashtar.livejournal.com]

I should be horsewhipped. I've been making compilations since the 80s. Oh noes! I arrrr a pirate. C'mere and let me pump our yer bilge.

The less said about my days on Napster, the better.

[starkruzr.livejournal.com]

For iTunes downloads, they have a case, because iTunes is a massive ripoff.

For your music on CDs, they assuredly do NOT.

[silveradept]

Ah, so now we can't even manipulate the material in our own music collections for our own personal and private use without having stolen from them. By the logic displayed here, every time we play a CD in a new stereo, or buy new speakers or tools for that stereo, we have to buy a new copy of the CD for that stereo. I should have rebought my collection many times over already, apparently. These are definitely the cries of an organization that senses its power fading away and is trying to hold on to what little it can.

[malakim2099.livejournal.com]

Man, I can't believe I stole all the music from my CDs to record onto audiotape mixes! I AM A BAD BAD FOX! *sniffle*

Well, actually, I am. But not for that! *grins*

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

I suppose we should all be thankful that we're still free to listen to the songs...

I mean if a digital copy entirely in your possession is considered separate from its source (we're not talking about digital copies that are distributed) then a very high definition analogue copy stored in your MEMORY must be like high treason or something. If, say, six people listen to a given song, that's five unpurchased copies out there... SCARY. (Thankfully, most pop music is infinitely forgettable.)

[kyoshyu.livejournal.com]

And I can only say to them:

FUCK YOU!

Those assholes actually wants their audience to pay every single fucking time you listen to a song!

Well fuck them. Go go Trent Reznor!

[rimspace.livejournal.com]

Do they actually expect people to buy a song twice just to listen to it on their computer?

Yes, and have said so several times in the past. As far as they are concerned you are purchasing a single media license for the work, so additional media means you need additional licenses.

Yes, it's completely fucked up, and not in any way connected with any reality. In other words, it's completely in keeping with the Recording Industry Ass. of America's general behaviour.

[wolfmare.livejournal.com]

...Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight..........

I don't give a rat's rump what they say, it's bull. So then, is it illegal for radio stations to play music, too? Or maybe to play music in your car, where other people might hear it? Or what about when you get earwormed with a song you don't 'own' a copy of in some form and hum it quietly to yourself while in a padded cell where you ended up from these idiots driving you crazy?

Gawd the music industry has gone downhill. I'm actually less inclined to buy cds from anybody represented by these morons because of all the BS.

[pointytilly.livejournal.com]

Haha. My mp3 player records off the radio...OH NO!!

[ekmahal.livejournal.com]

Re radio stations? They pay through the nose to be allowed to broadcast music.

A company I know of got hit with some retarded fine for playing, get this, music through their call holding system. Because they didn't have a radio license, and it was being broadcast to the public via the hold music.

[coyoty.livejournal.com]

1. Copyright laws specifically state that media owners may make copies of their media's content for personal use.

2. Various RIAA partners have themselves made commercials touting the ability of their products to make or be used for mix CDs.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Yes, they do want that.

This is a new form of "ownership" various industries are promoting. You do NOT own your proerty. You own a selection of usage privileges for that property that in no way can be cosnidered yours. That whole handing over money thing was just renting selected righst to use someone else's property until they decidee you can't use it that way any more (which may change quite randomly)

And then they wonder why no-one feels even the slightest guilt about "piracy"