In articles I have read on wired.com, RIAA has held the explicit position that recording a song from CD onto your hard drive in MP3 format is a violation
of copyright law and act of piracy. RIAA says that they simply have not chosen to prosecute such acts at this time.

Er... what about people who take songs from their CDs and dub them onto tapes? Are they committing acts of piracy as well? I was under the impression that when you purchase a CD you have purchased the rights to that ONE INDIVIDUAL CD and the music it contains (I read this up on the MP3.COM/RIAA lawsuit regarding the "My MP3" service). So technically if you have rights to that one CD, you should be able to record MP3's of that music all day long as long as they are for personal use and are not distributed in any fashion.

Am I incorrect here?

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