Comment License? (Score 1) 160
One of the primary arguments that the RIAA has floated is that they're actually only selling you a license for the music.
Nothing stating that the license is via CD-playback. They've suggested in the past that ripping your CD to your iPod is not legal, which is pretty implausible - I doubt that anyone doesn't rip CDs, once they have an iPod. (I know one out of X, where X is a large number.)
In my mind, if they're just selling a license to play the music you bought, then it should be legal to play it for yourself on that license. Wherever it is...you're licensed to listening to only one of those copies at a time. You can't listen it to the same time that your SO listens to it at a seperate location. It's impossible to enforce, so I'm sure they want stronger DRM to push it on people...except that DRM violates the agreement on what a CD is.
IANAL.
Nothing stating that the license is via CD-playback. They've suggested in the past that ripping your CD to your iPod is not legal, which is pretty implausible - I doubt that anyone doesn't rip CDs, once they have an iPod. (I know one out of X, where X is a large number.)
In my mind, if they're just selling a license to play the music you bought, then it should be legal to play it for yourself on that license. Wherever it is...you're licensed to listening to only one of those copies at a time. You can't listen it to the same time that your SO listens to it at a seperate location. It's impossible to enforce, so I'm sure they want stronger DRM to push it on people...except that DRM violates the agreement on what a CD is.
IANAL.
