I know people who burn DVDs. I refuse to engage in that practice, but if the MPAA decides to pull that stunt, I may have to start burning DVDs instead of buying them.
well, if they burn DVDs they own, or if they burn DVD copies of TV programs for their own us - that's fair use. if they copy DVDs and sell them on EBAY, that's something else.
I am not defending the RIAA, but this case with the IPODs might not really be fair use, because if you retain copies of that music and load them to your new IPOD, you have essentially "sold" a copy of the songs if you charge a premium price for a loaded IPOD. However, the RIAA should have to prove that you sold that IPOD at a premium price, marked up because of the loaded songs.
I am more concerned with good old fashioned fair use, which is being bled away. If I pay for cable TV every month, and a children's channel is showing something, and I want to be able to show that program to my child in the minivan - I should be able to legally make a DVD of it. that's fair use, plain and simple. same with CDs, if I buy a CD or a legal digital song, I should be able to legally copy and move that song into every player I own - house, car, cell phone, etc. If the industry has to deal with a certain amount of theft, that's there problem - every industry has theft. ITunes is selling millions and millions of legal digital songs, theft can't be that bad.