MPAA says ripping a DVD to Portable Player Illgeal
If the MPAA has there way in a recent court filing it will be illegal for you to rip a DVD to put on a portable media player. Instead they will want you to pay full retail for the rights…
Take Action Now to Stop Overreaching Trademark Claims
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has taken notice of Apple’s recent actions along with giving notice of a bill that is before congress that could make trademark lawyers smile with envy. This is a very bad bill that will open the…
Call to Action from IPaction.org
This just in and your help is needed in stopping another piece of legislation that will affect yoru fair use rights. This is a direct quote from the folks at IPaction.org “Tomorrow the Senate Judiciary committee continues its markup of…
RIAA pretty happy with itself and happy about suing people
I just read a interview with some of the folks at the RIAA and like normal they seem to be pretty happy with themselves for suing thousands of people each year. They are also very happy with the way their…
Recording Industry says it’s ok now to Rip CD’s for you MP3 Player
Well it’s funny that the RIAA is saying that it is now legal to RIP your CD’s onto your MP3 players. Don’t they realize that the entire world has been ripping CD’s onto MP3 players for a long time. These…
Banned YouTube User out to get others Banned!
Seems a Banned YouTube user is not happy with some decisions that have come down against him, in posting content that YouTube said violated copyright, while the banned user said the Videos were covered on Fair Use. He says he…
PERFORM Act, S. 2644 Restricts Consumer Media Fair Use!
Seems Congress has some more legislation in the pipeline that is going to effect your fair use rights. The recording home coalition says: PERFORM Act, S. 2644 would prevent satellite radio subscribers from recording and listening to programming that they…