The RIAA attempts to rewrite copyright law  The music industry
wants to make personal copies of music against the law. It
really needs to join the 21st Century.   "Surely, you're
joking!" I thought as I read Glyn Moody's take on recent
rumblings from the Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA). Glyn was making the point that the music industry is
hurting itself through its heavy-handed efforts to stamp out
peer-to-peer file sharing/stealing.  He's right, but it's even
worse than that, it turns out. The RIAA is actually trying to
rewrite copyright law on the fly, as the Washington Post
reports:  In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey
Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about
2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the [music]
industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has
legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his
computer....   No, not to someone else's computer. To your own
computer. Like a backup copy. This is so clearly not agai