RIAA Argues That MP3s From CDs Are Unauthorized

**Chewy** · 12 Dec 2007, 03:24 PM

RIAA Argues That MP3s From CDs Are Unauthorized - Slashdot

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/12/11/0436215.shtml

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In an Arizona case against a defendant who has no legal representation, Atlantic v. Howell, the RIAA is now arguing — contrary to its lawyers' statements to the United States Supreme Court in 2005 MGM v. Grokster — that the defendant's ripping of personal MP3...

I don't have a good link (edit: link added) but I just read where RIAA attorneys have filed in a lower federal court that ripping audio cd's to your computer as compressed mp3's is a copyright infringement

However they admitted in 2005 in the Grokster case before the US Supreme Court that it was "fair use", as in transfering to your Ipod.

Give them enough rope and they will hang themselves come election time.