when mp3 collections are outlawed

Educated Guesswork: January 2004 Archives

Check out that last sentence. Is it really possible that it’s actually illegal for me to rip the CDs in my own collection onto my own computer? All I can say to that is “Come and get me, Copper! I tore the tag off my mattress!”[1]

fn1. apologies to Philip Roth.

Another example of technological reality outpacing law . . . .