Punctuating The Silence » RIAA http://www.a440.org/steve/blog Random bits of Steve's mind, sparsely uploaded. Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:07:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The RIAA Says I’m not a Criminal, After All! http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2006/05/the-riaa-says-im-not-a-criminal-after-all/ http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2006/05/the-riaa-says-im-not-a-criminal-after-all/#comments Fri, 12 May 2006 15:23:30 +0000 Steve http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2006/05/12/the-riaa-says-im-not-a-criminal-after-all/ According to techdirt, my previous preparations to add some of the criminal element to my life can now be safely done away with, as the ever-magnanimous RIAA has now said that it’s OK to rip a CD that I own and listen to it on my iPod! Too bad, too, as I was this close to picking out my fear-inspiring criminal underworld nickname: “the ripper”. Huh? What do you mean it’s taken?

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Thanks, RIAA, for wanting to turn practically everyone who owns a computer into criminals. That should go over very well. Let’s see: I got an iPod so I could carry my entire music collection around with me, which worked out to about 3,800 songs. Re-buying those from the iTunes music store at $0.99/song would cost me $3,762.00. Yeah, I don’t think so. I’m willing to take my chances as a criminal.


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