News of the RIAA Overly Zealous Prosecution False
12.31.07 - 02:51pm
The RIAA (Record Recording industry of America) is fast becoming more hated than the IRS by anyone who has ever copied a CD or made the travesty of errors and passed a copy to a friend. With over 20,000 lawsuits against individuals, especially young college students, for passing on a digital copied songs the news that the RIAA was adding personal CD recordings, ripped to a computer, strictly for the use of the individual who bought the CD, as cause for a lawsuit was quickly believed and passed on from the Washington Post to blogs everywhere. The accusation however was false.
The new had come out that the RIAA was threatening to prosecute an Arizona man who had the gall to put his CD collection of over 2000 songs onto his computer for his own personal MP3 use. While the RIAA does say it is illegal for an individual to legally transfer a CD to the computer even if they don’t share it with anyone else, according to Engadget, they are not prosecuting the Arizona resident for that but rather for illegally downloading the songs from sites on the net to his computer.
