RIAA: Ripping is UNAUTHORIZED!!!!!!

The Washington Post reports:

the latest RIAA lawsuit against a P2P file sharer, some new, disturbing facts have come to light. It turns out the RIAA wants to make CD ripping, the act of copying music from a legally purchased CD to your PC, illegal.

Jeffrey Howell, an Arizona man accused of keeping a 2000 song collection on his computer, is accused of keeping “unauthorized copies of copyrighted recordings”, music he ripped from legal, store-bought CDs…

Yeah folks, that’s what it came down too, even ripping music on your OWN computer, from your OWN CD, that you purchased with your OWN money is unauthorized, according to the RIAA.

Jeffrey Howell is being sued placing his “unauthorized copies” (ripped mp3s) in a shared folder. While it’s not actually suing against “riping” audio CDs as early reports claimed, it’s still important to notice the terminology used in the complaint, referring to the ripped files as “unauthorized copies”.

The implication of the RIAA winning this case and setting precedent, witch at this moment is very unlikely to happen, is that you (American citizen) no longer have the right to rip CDs to your computer, meaning that you’ll might have to bye the same CD over and over again, and have to limit your iPODs content to files bought-off the Internet.

Here’s a little recap on some of the action taken before by the RIAA:

Working on increasing the royalty rates for music broadcast on Internet radio, killing Internet Radio slowly - Read More - Do Something

Tried to have a mother depose her child - Read More

Pushed TorrentSpy to stop US Activity - Read More