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If the RIAA folks had a clue, they would realize that this story is another nail in their asinine theories about music ripping:
Don’t feel so bad that your iPod contains illegally-obtained music, because US President George Bush has also been stealing music. Check out this video, where he talks about his Beatles songs on his iPod, and of course, Beatles music is not yet available online. That means he must have ripped them from a CD. Last February, the RIAA said that ripping CDs is illegal. Welcome to the band of thieves, Mr. President.
The trouble for the RIAA is that holding to that absurd opinion - that simply ripping a CD to a music player is itself illegal - nothing else they say gets taken seriously. Perhaps the top guys there should read the tale of the little boy who cried wolf...