Rip your CDs, get sued
Engadget is reporting on an Arizona man being sued by the RIAA.
Ira Schwartz, the industry’s lawyer in the case, is arguing that MP3 files created on his computer from legally purchased CDs are indeed “unauthorized copies”
which means the industry now wants you to buy the song 3 times – once on CD, once on DRM-laced downloads, and again if you should want a ringtone. Time to listen to more public domain classical music.
This is just another sign of the ‘Music Industry’ screwing themselves. They are not a music industry at all, they are merely banks. There is a great article in this months Wired by David Byrne (Talking Heads) I would highly suggest checking it out. He does a great job of explaining how they work, and how they are pretty much a dinosaur and not going to be around ‘as we have known them’ for very long. Artists have started to put more in their albums as well. My friends band has decided to re-release their last album , this time it has an extra dvd full of all the audio tracks broken out so you can use ANY computer music program to remix and redo the album as you wish. I think we are going to see more features like this.