Re: Apple Computer changes its name

["Simon D. Williams" <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Gregory Weston wrote:

> It is (legal, I mean), no matter what the RIAA thinks. They've made it 
> quite clear that as far as they're concerned, any given license to 
> experience recorded content covers the pairing of content and medium. As 
> such, the fact that you have Jethro Tull's "This Was" on CD, LP, 8-track 
> and DAT doesn't mean you have the right to listen to it from an analog 
> tape you've made by recording one of those other sources (in their 
> world). So far, the courts have not agreed with them.

Spooky. That album is one of the few I've downloaded with bittorrent... I
owned it on vinyl many years ago, so I was able to justify the "theft" to
myself (and that's all that matters, as far as I'm concerned).

I guess the basic problem is that the RIAA is essentially concerned with
the production and marketing of goods, as opposed to intellectual
property. Since the sale of audio (and video) recordings are no longer
reliant on the existence of a permanent physical medium, the RIAA and it's
ilk are essentially obsolete.

It's like having a mortally wounded bull elephant thrashing about in your
living room ;-)
-s
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