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Ford and GM Sued over CD Auto-Rip Device in Cars

posted by azrael on Wednesday July 30 2014, @02:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the sue-you-all-for-buffering-this-page dept.

"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.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by steveg on Thursday July 31 2014, @03:16PM

    by steveg (778) on Thursday July 31 2014, @03:16PM (#75944)

    Actually, it's gone the other way. I don't think any car manufacturer is still ripping CDs (to their massive internal 10G hard disks!) They've all moved to the car owner providing and managing their own storage media and music, usually usb or sd cards. This makes a much simpler device, not a more complex one. It also means that you have a lot more room for music--my car has a 64G low profile usb drive plugged in to a hidden center console port.

    As someone else has pointed out, it's mp3 or wma only, so my ogg vorbis collection had to be transcoded, and that was a pain in the butt, but still it allows my entire digital collection to be with me in the car. I still have some LPs waiting to be converted...