The RIAA has finally gone and lost its mind. They have been filing lawsuits against students and such for trading music for years now but they seem to be trying a new tact these days. Now they want to go after copies of legally owned CD music which you copy to your own computer or IPOD as well.

There are well established legal standards for this which were fought out over the audio tape cassette then the VCR, personal at home and non-profit use is acceptable. But not anymore, not according to RIAA lawyers if they get their way.

The second to the last paragraph of the article summed it up well enough for me.

The RIAA's legal crusade against its customers is a classic example of an old media company clinging to a business model that has collapsed. Four years of a failed strategy has only "created a whole market of people who specifically look to buy independent goods so as not to deal with the big record companies," Beckerman says. "Every problem they're trying to solve is worse now than when they started."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122800693.html