And of course, This is the same RIAA who said that making backups of audio CD is illegal. Broken window fallacy anyone?"It is undisputed that Defendant possessed unauthorized copies of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted sound recordings on his computer. Exhibit B to Plaintiffs’ Complaint is a series of screen shots showing the sound recording and other files found in the KaZaA shared folder on Defendant’s computer on January 30, 2006. [...] Virtually all of the sound recordings on Exhibit B are in the “.mp3” format. (Exhibit 10 to SOF, showing virtually all audio files with the “.mp3” extension.) Defendant admitted that he converted these sound recordings from their original format to the .mp3 format for his and his wife’s use. [...] Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs’ recording into the compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared folder, they are no longer the authorized copies distributed by Plaintiffs."
Even if CDs do become damaged, replacements are readily available at affordable prices.
Frankly though, this kind of shit has ceased to surprise me anymore. RIAA just never stops to rape fair use because they're so enamored to charge multiple times for the same content --and this is what their copyright law is all about.
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