This happened to me when Napster came out; I got locked out of Napster because I was accused of downloading a file from a group called "Little Texas" called "What Might Have Been." I fought tooth and nail that they violated my privacy (by going on the internet and posting my problem and then having the people who own the site contact the people who locked me out - as soon as it became more of a public matter, I got my rights back because they made an error) because I own the cd that song is on and I took it off my cd and put it on my computer along with other songs. When they realized what they did, they gave me access back to Napster. These people are treading on dangerous territory.
I read something where the Senate is looking into his actions especially for what he did to an innocent child.
It may be copyright infringement to download music files and listen to the songs on your own computer, but he should be going after the people that are downloading the files and selling bootleg cd's.
I am 56 years old, and when I was growing up, we took music off the radio and put it on to cassette - were the radio police there saying that we were committing copyright infringement? How greedy can these people get?
If you have Cary Sherman's email address, please let me know because I would like to email my comments to him directly.
Sincerely,
Nancy Muniz
Given the newsworthiness of the RIAA, we will now reprint our interview with Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA, from August 13, 2002:
Good morning all! Welcome to our live interview with RIAA pres Cary Sherman. I will be asking questions sent along by our contributors and readers. We will begin shortly. Thanks for stopping by, Eric Olsen.Question #1:
Why are you lobbying so hard for copy-restriction technologies when
a) they are readily defeated by anyone with a CD player and an audio cable and time on their hands
b) they annoy legitimate customers trying to transfer music from CD to MP3 players
c) they crash computers, leading to class action suits against your memeber for distributing malicious code?These do not add to the value of your recordings, they reduce it. Instead, why not adopt Enhanced CDs that have images and lyrics on for computer users, as is done widely in the UK?
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