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Title    Ford and GM Sued over CD Auto-Rip Device in Cars
Date    Wednesday July 30 2014, @02:32AM
Author    azrael
Topic   
from the sue-you-all-for-buffering-this-page dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/07/29/2221243

"Elf" writes:

The BBC, Billboard and Techdirt all report the AARC (little known organisation representing artists in America by collecting royalties) has filed a law suit against General Motors, Ford and the makers of a device that can auto rip a CD in a car and store the resulting music on a hard drive for easy future play back.

They previously tried to sue Rio in the late 1990's over their MP3 player and lost (which then gave rise to many other MP3 players), they are trying really hard to claim that this is different and that the sole purpose of this device is to copy music and other digital recordings. They claim they should be receiving $2,500 per car that this device is in.

Links
  1. "BBC" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28547853
  2. "Billboard" - http://www.billboard.com/articles/6190801/ford-general-motors-sued-unpaid-royalties
  3. "Techdirt" - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140728/17321728038/recording-industry-files-insane-lawsuit-against-ford-gmhaving-built-in-cd-rippers.shtml
  4. "AARC" - http://wp.aarcroyalties.com/
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