Jeffrey Howell from Arizona is being sued by Atlantic Records for illegally sharing his digital music, which pretty much accounts to sharing it at all. His particular crime is nothing new: he converted music from his CDs into MP3s and put them in a shared folder for Kazaa to distribute. What's new is that the RIAA is going one step farther than simply saying Howell shouldn't distribute the CDs. In the lobbying organization's brief, they're saying he never should have copied them in the first place. That's right, according to a legal brief filed in the case by the RIAA, any time you put a CD you own into a computer you own and iTunes rips it into MP3 format, you've created "unauthorized" copies.
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