WTF? Even if you think that people who do file sharing are wrong, you should be bothered by this. What the hell happened to “fair use”? Wanna bet that they’ll go after DVRs if they win this one? Wonder how many people are going to hear about this and say, “Screw it, if I’m going to get sued no matter what I do, I’m just going to steal everything.”?
RIAA is being belligerently stupid. Assuming you only rip songs to your computer so only you can listen to them and never share them on-line, how exactly do they expect enforce this? Are they going to start randomly grabbing iPod listeners off the street and giving them the third-degree to find out if songs on their MP3 player were (gasp!) originally from a CD? Are they going to start paying people to snitch on friends and family who have ripped their CD collection to their computer? Their whole argument deserves to get laughed out of court.