The RIAA pulled its middle finger back out, and waved it at all of us again today. Here's what they said during the Grokster case last year:

"The record companies, my clients, have said, for some time now, and it's been on their website for some time now, that it's perfectly lawful to take a CD that you've purchased, upload it onto your computer, put it onto your iPod."

However, in a filing the just made, it's clear that they consider that to be inoperative:

"Nor does the fact that permission to make a copy in particular circumstances is often or even routinely granted, necessarily establish that the copying is a fair use when the copyright owner withholds that authorization. In this regard, the statement attributed to counsel for copyright owners in the MGM v. Grokster case is simply a statement about authorization, not about fair use."

So using their standard operating procedure, if they write a restriction against copying in tiny print, and hide it under the CD inside the case, that's fair warning. What a bunch of utter tools. Oh - even making a backup against a disaster is verboten:

The same filing also had this to say: "Similarly, creating a back-up copy of a music CD is not a non-infringing use...."

I repeat: what a bunch of tools.