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AZ Copyright Conviction (Donna Wentworth)

So what's wrong with this picture? You BUY a CD. You OWN the CD. It is YOURS. You can set fire to it. You can smash it. You can give it to a friend. You can make mobiles out of it. But you can't rip MP3s with it? I don't see anything I signed saying I can't do with my own property what I feel like. I've bought a license to listen to that music when I paid the outrageous prices for the thing in the first place! But I can't listen to it on a machine the Cartel hasn't approved? Screw THAT

Frank Field has details on the felony conviction of an 18-year-old kid under Arizona's Internet piracy law counterfeiting law.


Update: Ernie Miller on same: "If you have ripped songs from CDs you own to MP3, you have made 'unauthorized reproductions.' If you make fair use of a copyrighted work, you have made 'unauthorized reproductions.' And, if you have 1,000 copies of your fair use, you are guilty of class 5 felony. Joy.


There is no defense. You are guilty in Arizona for exercising fair use rights under federal law. This would seem to have just a little bit of conflict with the First Amendement. "

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