WTF is this crap???  The RIAA is trying to say that if I buy a cd and then rip that disc to mp3...you know...say for use on my own mp3 player...that I am breaking the law.

From the brief:

"It is undisputed that Defendant possessed unauthorized copies of Plaintiffs' copyrighted sound recordings on his computer ... Virtually all of the sound recordings on Exhibit B are in the ".mp3" format. ... Defendant admitted that he converted these sound recordings from their original format to the .mp3 format for his and his wife's use."