can't even archive your own cd's on your pc anymore
 

The RIAA is now suing people who rip cd's for personal use that they legally purchased

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...122800693.html

It doesn't say anywhere how they found out about this guy.

Thank goodness they can't pull that crap in Canada.

according to this blog he had files on kazaa which is how they caught him:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28...t-in-2008-you/

Well if he shared files on kazza that is his crime not ripping cd.

if he ripped the cd's with the intention of distributing them then he is doing illegal activities

same way possessing prescription narcotics is not illegal, but if you posses them to resell them it is illegal

Canada is America's bitch. Canada will follow in a short amount of time.

Yeah, reading the full articcle the person was sued for illegally ditributing copies
to other people. The RIAA contention that copying it to the computer in the first
place was legally questionable is a side issue, a kind of "throw everything you
can think of at the wall and see what sticks". US courts have been fairly consistent
that making a backup copy or a copy for your own use is OK. Selling copies
or giving them away is not. The RIAA site has this example in there list of
activities which would violate copyright law:

I doubt there's much difference between the US and Canada in this regard -
the music companies could try to make the same claim in a Canadian court
just as they did in the US, but in neither country are they likely to win based
on that claim.

Actually in this case, no. You might want to do a little research.

We already have laws on the books for this stuff. In Canada a tax of sorts is added to all blank media and paid to artists as royalties.

Oh, there's lots of differences. From the tax on recording media to Canada's courts ruling that the RIAA has no right to subscriber information from ISPs. In other words, my ISP doesn't have to tell you who I am from an IP you might record.

Hardly and no.
Canada had the foresight to act on "new media" by taxing all copy mediums such as cassettes, vhs tapes, cd's, dvds, etc... to ensure that the RIAA and all artists were properly compensated from the inevitable. Copying.

Other places are running with this leaving out the little part that he was sharing songs that werent his to share.