If it's the article I saw yesterday, or maybe Sunday, and followed a few links, it turns out that the individual did more than just rip tracks off of CDs that he purchased. He put the "songs" up on one of the sharing services for anyone to grab for free. I think it would be tough for the RIAA or anyone to detect someone who simply rips purchased CDs and copies the "songs" to his personal MP3 player for his own use. Impossible if one does it on a machine not connected to the Internet.
But in going after the guy, they have cited him for the ripping as well. Fred Holmes At 06:55 PM 1/1/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote: >>Reports this story is bogus, that it is a simple illegal download lawsuit. > >The Post has not retracted it (yet) and it is #1 in the list of most >downloaded articles in the Arts section where it ran. > > >************************************************************************ >* ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== >* ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== >* Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name >* Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST >* Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L >* New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress >* Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >************************************************************************ >* List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l >* List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >* RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml >* Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived >************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
