>And now our friends at RIAA say that making any copy of a CD is a >violation to be pursued by their bevy of lawyers.
Looks like this story was mostly correct and now has some legs. It will be interesting to see if it gets picked up by broadcast media. Several editorials. One in InfoWorld suggests cutting back copyright protections drastically to solve the problem. Brian Solis point out that this spells the death of CDs because there is no sense buying CDs if their most common use is illegal. This evening officers will be ready at pedestrian choke points like Metro stations to arrest iPod users in mass. The RIAA has chartered 100s of buses and rented the as-yet unopened National's stadium as a mass holding pen. ************************************************************************ * ==> 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 ************************************************************************
