Sony BMG's chief anti-piracy lawyer: "Copying" music you own is "stealing"

[SUBMAN1]

Can Sony go bankrupt or something already? THis is getting rediculous.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...-stealing.html

-S

...Gabriel asked if it was wrong for consumers to make copies of music which they have purchased, even just one copy. Pariser replied, "When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song." Making "a copy" of a purchased song is just "a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy'," she said....

[HunterICX]

yeah....right
doesnt these kind of text makes you wanna beat this Pariser in the face....

[CB..]

and what do they call re-releasing their entire back catalogue in a new format every couple of years..if they haven't made enough money from scrapping traditional records and going entirely over to cd's ....then maybe they're the pirates eh?? you just know they'll keep on doing this everytime a new format comes around....course no-one forces you to buy the new format but they know that sooner or later nearly every-one will....i'm no fan of pirated music in any form..(well the odd bootleg or two perhaps from a record fair..)...but just who is kidding who with this stuff?

[Dowly]

They just dont know when to stop... oh well.. their loss.

Real numbers about RIAA anti-p2p campaign

[VipertheSniper]

Originally Posted by Dowly

They just dont know when to stop... oh well.. their loss.

Real numbers about RIAA anti-p2p campaign

Sony doesn't get anything for a song each time it's played on the radio? I just wonder why people around here have to pay for public playing of those records to something like an equivalent of the RIAA? I'm pretty sure this stuff goes back to the record companies. Sure I guess with the thousands of radio stations in the USA it might pose a problem to actually employ a model like that.

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Can Sony go bankrupt or something already? THis is getting rediculous.

I'd rather put a copy of a CD in the car than the original, since if it warps due to heat, I don't end up destroying the original. The guy obviously don't understand (or doesn't want to understand) the concept of "fair use".

Also, considering their foray into the world of rootkits, this clown has nothing to say about doing things that might be "illegal."

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Zayphod

I'd rather put a copy of a CD in the car than the original, since if it warps due to heat, I don't end up destroying the original. The guy obviously don't understand (or doesn't want to understand) the concept of "fair use".

Also, considering their foray into the world of rootkits, this clown has nothing to say about doing things that might be "illegal."

You are totally wrong here! How else will they get you to buy multiple copies every time you scratch your CD or have someone steal it? I mean come on already. They aren't making any profit when you aren't buying 10 copies of the same disc now, so this is totally unacceptable and you should not be able to copy CD's at all!

-S

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

You are totally wrong here! How else will they get you to buy multiple copies every time you scratch your CD or have someone steal it? I mean come on already. They aren't making any profit when you aren't buying 10 copies of the same disc now, so this is totally unacceptable and you should not be able to copy CD's at all!
-S

They'll have their way once Vista comes out on every PC in the world, allowing no computer to copy anything until you put money in the slot provided by M$. Some guy will collect it and hand it to their masters once a month.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Zayphod

They'll have their way once Vista comes out on every PC in the world, allowing no computer to copy anything until you put money in the slot provided by M$. Some guy will collect it and hand it to their masters once a month.

Hogwash - Enter Linux - Enter Dual Boot. As long as these capabilities exist, you need not worry about the Redmond giant.

-S

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Hogwash - Enter Linux - Enter Dual Boot. As long as these capabilities exist, you need not worry about the Redmond giant.

-S

Until M$ adjusts Vista to exclude any ability to dual-boot anything other than Vista and XP. Yes, give them that opportunity, and I guarantee that they'll try setting it up that way. (just my cynical self speaking here, of course)