Washington Post reporter debates RIAA on radio

Cory Bergman January 3rd, 2008

Remember that WaPost story I posted a few days ago that said the RIAA was now pursuing a legal strategy that concluded that copying legal CDs to your own computer is illegal? Well, the reporter who did the story, Marc Fisher, ended up on NPR radio with the president of the RIAA, and as Fark would say, hilarity ensued. The RIAA denied it and accused Fisher of sloppy reporting. The RIAA said that Fisher only quoted part of the legal documents, leaving out the line about copying files to a “shared folder” — a folder that would share the music with other users. “The way I saw it, Fisher was ill advised to debate,” writes Greg Sandoval on News.com. “What was exposed was a reporter who doesn’t want to admit to making a mistake and has dug his heels in.”