Law Students

From The Yeah, Right Deparment

A new law proposed in Congress would make it illegal to program and record music from digital radios and transfer those songs to MP3 players.

Now, my irritation with the record industry aside, I must ask: how exactly will this law be enforced? I mean, sure, if you’re distributing pirated music, you can expect to be caught, but otherwise this is far too similar in practice to time-shifting with a VCR. I don’t think the FBI is going to start busting down doors to check your iPod or grabbing everybody with white headphones off the street to see if they’ve been recording stuff off of the radio.

Side note: How 1980s is this? Recording music off of the radio? Why not just buy the music on iTunes?

Full post as published by UnCivil Pro on December 10, 2006 (boomark / email).