{"id":2186,"date":"2006-02-16T06:42:16","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T06:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2006-02-16T06:42:16","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T06:42:16","slug":"riaa_ripping_yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2186","title":{"rendered":"RIAA: Ripping Your CD&#8217;s is Not Fair Use (!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/archives\/004409.php\">EFF<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It is no secret that the entertainment oligopolists are not happy about space-shifting and format-shifting. But surely ripping your own CDs to your own iPod passes muster, right? In fact, didn&#8217;t they admit as much in front of the Supreme Court during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/IP\/P2P\/MGM_v_Grokster\/%22\">MGM v. Grokster<\/a> argument last year?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently not.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the on-going <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/archives\/004212.php\">DMCA rule-making proceedings<\/a>, the RIAA and other copyright industry associations submitted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/1201\/2006\/reply\/11metalitz_AAP.pdf\">a filing<\/a> that included this gem as part of their argument that space-shifting and format-shifting do not count as noninfringing uses, even when you are talking about making copies of your own CDs:<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of our politicians have been serving Hollywood&#8217;s interests (to the detriment of ours) rather well, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/004299.php\">Jim Sensenbrenner and John Conyers<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EFF: It is no secret that the entertainment oligopolists are not happy about space-shifting and format-shifting. But surely ripping your own CDs to your own iPod passes muster, right? In fact, didn&#8217;t they admit as much in front of the Supreme Court during the MGM v. Grokster argument last year? Apparently not. As part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}