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Here is the RIAA's position: "Online piracy is the unauthorized uploading of a copyrighted sound recording and making it available to the public, or downloadin
by answerly 18y ago
Here is the RIAA's position:
"Online piracy is the unauthorized uploading of a copyrighted sound recording and making it available to the public, or downloading a sound recording from an Internet site, even if the recording isn't resold. Online piracy can now also include certain uses of "streaming" technologies from the Internet. Because of the nature of the theft, the damage is not always easy to calculate but not hard to envision."
Source:
http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php?content_selector=piracy_details_online http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php?content_selector=pira...
- edb 18y agoIs it wise to contact the RIAA and ask them if what I'm doing is legitimate?
- pedalpete 18y agoI wouldn't contact the RIAA, they have a notoriously bad reputation (assuming you could actually get to anybody reasonable). I'd go the route of the current mp3 search engines. Do some research on Fair Use Copyright and DMCA. Also check out the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation).
- edb 18y agogood suggestion. Thanks!
- ConradHex 18y agoI suspect if you have to ask them, the answer is a big-time "no".
- pedalpete 18y agoJust to clarify the above, the RIAA's position is not a legal definition, just what the RIAA wants. Therefore the "Online piracy is..." section is inaccurate, replace that with "The RIAA considers Online piracy as..." and no, I'm not a lawyer.