[geeks] Legal Corporate Music Servers

[Michael Parson]

On May 28, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> Rick Hamell wrote:
>>>>>> They still find fault with you copying a CD onto your iPod.
>>>>> The RIAA is the reason I don't buy music from RIAA labels any  
>>>>> more.
>>>> I buy most of my music used.  Come to think of it, the RIAA finds  
>>>> fault
>>>> with that as well.
>>> I don't think the RIAA will be happy until/unless you pay them  
>>> each time
>>> you listen to the music.
>> Wasn't that pretty much their argument in one of their cases? I  
>> want to say it was the Oregon one, but don't remember which.
>
> I have a feeling that they wouldn't be happy even then.  They want  
> to charge you every time you *remember* or *think about* their music.

Ooooh, got an earworm of that one song... you owe, you owe, you owe.

Use a snippet of lyrics as a comeback in a conversation, pay up.

It's only fair, you see, those poor people are losing out on sales  
based on their outdated distribution model.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org