RIAA Goes After Fair Use

Despite the fact that you can now legally down­load DRM-free music from a num­ber of sources, the RIAA has started going after peo­ple who rip CDs for their own use. That’s right, grab a song from the CD you just bought and the RIAA might go after you, too.

[Update] That arti­cle was some­what mis­lead­ing, the RIAA is actu­ally suing over shar­ing files, not over rip­ping per se. But it’s still call­ing CD rip­ping ‘unauthorized’.

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