The World According to Sony: A song copied from CD to your music player is theft

[thewayne]

In which case I'm proud to be a thief.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071002-sony-bmgs-chief-anti-piracy-lawyer-copying-music-you-own-is-stealing.html

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/03/1221213

Comments

[droewyn.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of writing Sony a letter in which I point out that, if dowloading a song online without paying for it is stealing, and if buying a CD and ripping the music so as to be able to listen to the song on my iPod is ALSO stealing, it clearly makes more sense to do the former. If I'm a "thief" either way.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

It's kind of funny. You could rig a desktop PC to be unable to play music yet it could rip, therefore you have no playback device except your iPod. What happens to their equation then?

[zentraedi-shep.livejournal.com]

I'd like to know how many selfmade CDs and how many tapes recorded from radio or CD this Ms Pariser herself owns... Perhaps she should turn herself in, so that there is one less thief in the brave new sony-world...
And on another note, if ripping is stealing, why again did SONY invent the CD-R and the mp3 format?

I guess I am a thief of my own stuff

[jadziaesq.livejournal.com]

And one that has been doing it since I was 8, abd like you, proud of it in this case.

What Black's law dictionary is she reading from.