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

[badboy]

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.

Countless studies have shown that the majority of music on portable music players like the iPod comes from sources other than download services. For most people, that music is comprised primarily of songs "ripped" from CD collections to MP3 or some other comparable format. Indeed, most portable music players comes with software (like iTunes) which is designed to facilitate the easy ripping of CDs. According to Pariser's view, this is stealing.

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

omg wtf?

[Sundance Kid V2]

Yea... WTF!!!

[compunoob]

So about a light year ago when I was young =P we used to record lp's onto cassette tapes. Why all the sudden is it illegal to copy songs u bought? This is pretty gay

[HAL10000]

Originally Posted by compunoob

So about a light year ago when I was young =P we used to record lp's onto cassette tapes. Why all the sudden is it illegal to copy songs u bought? This is pretty gay

The RIAA needs government laws to maintain their pricing regime instead of letting the market decide pricing. CDs were *way* too overpriced.

[Ghastlyone]

I wonder what the RIAA would say if everyone start recording directly from the radio onto a cassette tape, or CD??

Anyone here ever remember doing this back in the day?

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by Ghastlyone

I wonder what the RIAA would say if everyone start recording directly from the radio onto a cassette tape

Anyone here ever remember doing this back in the day?

I used to do that not six years ago..

[daPhoenix]

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33903856