On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 at 08:00AM -0400, Eric Jahn wrote:
> The RIAA would have no easy way of catching a stream ripper, but
> possession of ripped streaming media still sounds as illegal as a song
> ripped from a CD.
>
Ripping *MY* CD's into .ogg's and *NOT* sharing them is not illegal!
Now, if I were to give or sell the CD, and not delete the .ogg files,
that would quite possibly be illegal, but I don't.
I myself own the CD that I bought, or that was bought and given to me.
My ownership just does not include copy rights; I don't have the right
to copy it, except for my own fair use.
Now, recording radio streams, I find it hard to believe that
that is illegal. While at the St. Pete meeting yesterday,
I recorded some streaming media into an analog storage device,
that is to say, I taped a TV show. That is not illegal, right?
What if I tape some FM radio station? What if I get a FM radio card
and record to .ogg files? I don't really see why that would
be illegal.
Possession of ripped songs that one made can not be illegal unless
tapes and VCR's are.
--
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain
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