"The Post picked up one sentence in a 21-page brief and then picked the part of the sentence about ripping CDs onto the computer," Sherman said during the radio show. "(The Post) simply ignored the part of the sentence about putting them into a shared folder."
The thing that bothers me here? I have a password-protected wireless network. My sharing folders (which, incidentally, contain an alias for my music folders) are protected with a different password. If they want to go and tell me that that's illegal, they can piss off, I'm not doing illegal file transfers, I just happen to have a backup for all my shit on another computer.
Not only that, but what about moving files from a Windows-formatted external hard drive to a MacOS-formatted hard drive in a permanent transition from PC to Mac? I sure as hell can't just plug the Mac-formatted XHD into my PC and say "o hay do it plz," it just doesn't work that way. The only way I've ever been able to successfully and efficiently transfer files was through my network. Telling me that doing that is illegal? No, fuck you, RIAA, I am not going to manually transfer files from the PC to my 1GB CompactFlash card and manually place them in a folder on my Mac's hard drive. That's not time-efficient and contrary to popular belief I kindof have shit I like to do with my time.
tl;dr fuck those guys. I don't just up and give people my entire library of music over my network, if they want to steal music they can put their own asses on the line like I do with BitTorrent. Every file transfer I have ever done between computers on my network has been from MY computer to MY other computer, nobody else's.