Reply #125: Oh, back in the day I remember the RIAA raising a stink then [View All]

But the fact of the matter was that there wasn't a damn thing that they could do about it. No way to install copy protection on vinyl or tape, so they just whined and moaned and did nothing. People continued to tape, all under the rubric of the fair use law.

The only difference now is that a CD can be copy protected. Of course that throws the whole idea of fair use out the window, thus alienating people who are recording CDs for things like weddings, dances, etc. etc. In addition, with today's electronics and computers, copyright protection will be gotten around, one way or the other. If you've got a source playing the music, it will be recorded, there really is no way you can stop it.