The RIAA is an extortion racket, they pray on people like her.
The RIAA is hypocritical and unethical. For years people have made mix tapes off records and CDs and never once was it considered illegal to do so, either to give to others or make for yourself. Even ripping tunes off a CD does not give a 100% equal copy of the original CD’s quality. But because they are a lot better quality than CD to tape or record to tape, RIAA says it’s illegal to do so.
F&ck RIAA. It isn’t the quality of the copy that makes it illegal. It is about ownership. The precedent has already been set. They never said ‘boo’ about it in the past. Nobody would have agreed with them either.