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| Confusing...
Surely this is written as to confuse and be ambiguous enough to be applied however they should wish.
Back a month or so ago when the whole "RIAA is suing because this fellow ripped a CD he bought to MP3" mess came about, the RIAA's attorney made comments which were suitably vague as to present the possibility they might challenge Fair Use in the application of time or space shifting the content, such as CD to MP3, which is in fact legal today.
Of course the case really involved him uploading those tracks and sharing them with others, which is another deal altogether. The point is though they said the words that could be used to go after legal uses of the CD you bought.
Compilations? LOL They're called mix tapes in my day, and who didn't make them? We all did at one time or another. Now, if what they're looking at here are folks who go out and wholesale copy CDs for redistribution, then fine. The trouble is that the language doesn't state this, so it could be used for other purposes.
It seems every year we have to have another IP bill that the RIAA or MPAA looks to ratchet up fines which frankly do not have to be changed.
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