I kinda knew this was possible, but I didn't think the music labels would ever be stupid enough to do it. They're making good on their threat to sue people for copying their own CDs to their own computers. Gah. Double-gah with filling.

In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer.

The industry's lawyer in the case, Ira Schwartz, argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files Howell made on his computer from legally bought CDs are "unauthorized copies" of copyrighted recordings.

I would like to introduce the record labels to my close personal friends, the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger.