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It seems the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) manages to make themselves look more and more like a joke every year. After the huge push to sweep away music piracy some of us felt we were safe. However, according to recent sources, the RIAA has cracked down on several people claiming that the music that they copied to their hard drive using a CD Ripping program is an illegal copy of copyrighted music. What becomes even more confusing is that Microsoft, whom we would all assume is well versed in copyright laws, has included a CD Ripping software program to copy music from your CD’s to the hard drive of your Xbox 360.
This raises further questions because of the fact that in order to get music on to most conventional mp3 players, the music has to first be put onto the hard drive. The whole idea of legally purchased music being illegal once on your hard drive has become a very confusing battle on behalf of the RIAA and there is no simple indication as to what exactly the RIAA guidelines are
Some would go as far as to say that Microsoft is endorsing music piracy because of this, however no comment has been made thus far by Microsoft.
More information to come as it has been released.
UPDATE: There has been further information floating around on the internet suggesting that the story may be innacurate. The information claims that RIAA is not suing for ripping CD’s but rather for normal music piracy and illegal downloads. However, the article went on to say that it could be possible that ripping CD’s is considered illegal. So this is now just a rumor.
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