Gateway the Good!

I rarely praise boxy PC companies for their innovation and initiative to stand up to the big guys, but in this case I have to hand it to Gateway. They are launching a new advertising campaign that will educate consumers that they are allowed under "fair use" to rip their CDs to their computer and burn songs they own on other CDs for personal use. I have found that the RIAA is using the guise of piracy to try and stop any copying at all onto a computer, it's good that a computer company is standing up for the consumer's rights. From the article:

"Our concern is that some in the recording industry have created a real sense of ambiguity and confusion among consumers as a consequence of (the industry's) antipiracy efforts," said Gateway spokesman Brad Williams. "We agree that piracy is a major problem. But we're very concerned that consumers' fair use rights can be swept up and lost in the antipiracy debates."