That's how I read it, too. So if I own a CD, rip a song off of it onto my machine and convert it to an MP3 (which I do all the time), they can come snooping my hard drive and delete it. They have no way of knowing if I have paid for the music or not.
This bill will be shot down as Unconstitutional! If they allow pornography on the damn internet, they'd be hard pressed to get this passing.
No. Ripping songs off your own CD's for your computer is not the problem, its ripping songs of your CD's then putting them in a public folder so that others who have not purchased the CD's can get to them. There's no constitutional right to piracy, and heck I even do it, but I'm not gonna rage against the goverment and enterntainment industries for trying to stop me. This is basically the same as if in your neighborhood everyone had a cardboard box outside their home where they kept putting copies of every piece of media they have. You can walk up and down your street and grab whatever you want and others can come to your box and grab what they want. I wouldn't blame them if the media industries sent people posing to be your neighbors to walk right up onto your property and grab anything that was made by them, if it happened to be that you had legally purchased a copy, it really doesn't matter because your making copies of their material available for others. I would perfer, that this task was relegated to a govermental entity with better outlined rules and regulations but in a capitalistic society theres not reason for having bad feelings for them trying.
That its would be annoying there is no doubt. But thats merely from the need to spend your money on CD's that you want instead of just grabbing them, or for the really lazy people with plent of money, merely having to go out to get it.
The main point is that you have all the freedom in the world to have whatever you want to have on your computer in the privacy of your own home, but when you open a door out to the world and let anyone in you want and set up a media barter system, then its not the privacy of your own home. Again, there's no inherent God given right to steal from people providing you a service. But I like alot of people on this thread say, "bring it on." This whole battle over free music/programs and copyright protection only serves to build up our technology as those with the copyrights seek to protect them and those that want the media free seek to break the protection. I'd personally rather spend my energy on maintaining our rights that are God given being stomped on by big government. So I won't fight either way, I'll just enjoy the benefits until I either have some spare money every month, or the laws are set such that I'm inclined to not download anything for my own protection.