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RIAA Disputes Legality of Ripped CDs
Monday, December 10th, 2007 at 3:00 PM - by John Martellaro
The RIAA continues to insist that music ripped from standard CDs is not authorized, according to ars technica on Tuesday. The claim by the RIAA was again made in the lawsuit Atlantic v. Howell.
In the RIAA lawsuit against Jeffrey and Pamela Howell, the defendants are suspected of file sharing over the KaZaA network. In the course of the trial, those files ripped for personal use were also deemed "unauthorized."
The Howells denied infringement and said that the files were ripped for personal use on portable devices, and that constitutes "fair use."
Several spokespersons for the recording industry have said that when one makes a personal copy of music track from a [Red Book] CD, that’s stealing.
So far, neither lawsuits nor the U.S. Congress has adequately defined fair use for music CDs, and the open ended nature of the RIAA’s claims continue to be used as bludgeons against customers when they end up in court against the RIAA for any other reason.
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