

Fair use under direct attack in Atlantic v. Howell








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By TomCorelis on 12/18/2007 2:22:58 AM , Rating: 2
At face value, you're right. But it's little things like this that help people predict the RIAA's larger direction and intentions.

By sxr7171 on 12/18/2007 4:09:57 AM , Rating: 2
Well, fair enough. You might have a point that the RIAA wishes the iPod didn't take off and people didn't start ripping all their legally purchased music to their computers for use on their DAPs, but if wishes were horses...

Now it is too late, and the tides have turned. This isn't the 80s where you pretty much HAD TO buy your music (or dub it with two tape decks). They were on board when the iPod came out, many of their members were in bed with Apple, hence the iTunes store.

They just seems like a wounded animal that attacks anything these days and the sad thing is that people do get "bitten" by this sick, rabid dog that is the RIAA.

They just keep crying about a bygone era and wish that technology didn't appear that makes music more portable and transferable. Well, it's happened and it's partly their fault. Get with the times and offer us reasonably priced lossless downloads, or even CDs at reasonable prices. Give us options and maybe you'll start flourishing again. The old business model simply won't work anymore, just give it up. There's only so long you can cry and cry about milk that was spilled in the 90s.

All this makes me much less inclined to buy music anymore. Basically your article doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know.


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