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January 08, 2008
We can remember it retail
Flea-readers should take care not to remember recorded music while we have copyright holders to remember it for us (via Technoccult).
On the heels of the RIAA's recent decision to criminalize consumers who rip songs from albums they've purchased to their computers (or iPods), the association has now gone one step further and declared that "remembering songs" using your brain is criminal copyright infringement. "The brain is a recording device," explained RIAA president Cary Sherman. "The act of listening is an unauthorized act of copying music to that recording device, and the act of recalling or remembering a song is unauthorized playback."
Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 8, 2008 04:51 AM
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