BF2S Forums RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use

How can they regulate it?

Le sigh. DRM only hurts the average consumer joe. Me, and my kin of people advanced enough to pirate will never, ever be bothered by these baseline protections. They are pointless, except to the point that they make consumer joe's life a bitch since now he has to buy the same song for his ipod, stereo, and car SEPERATELY.

Meanwhile the people technically skilled (and the larger percentage of pirates) continue doing what they do regardless. It's so stupid.

Sadly, the tech elite (who understand what's up) can't do anything cause our numbers are small -- but one day, Average Joe will realize wtf is going on and say "Hey bitches! You're stepping on my rights, jerk!" after which there will be many huge legal battle to remove all the Anti-FairUse laws that are currently being put into place by high power, and money ladden content providers.

Should be fun, not that it'll affect me ever.

LOL, I got busted by the RIAA running an 400 Gig ftp MP3 site in the pre-Napster days.  It was nothing more than a slap on the hand though.

I hate buying it off the internet because it requires a credit card, which is something I don't have.

RIAA can suck a fat <explicative deleted>.

Well, its not gonna stop me, unless some feds come to me and check my cell phone for songs.

They are just using this as a way to be able to put copy protection on the CDs which prevent them from being copied at all.  Of course, there will always be people who figure out how to circumvent the copy protection.