Sony Rots , er I mean rocks!!!

[stoney]

The industry is getting more controling and more greedy with each passing day. When all is said and done, who is killing Music?

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


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.


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

[keith]

Fair Use Elaborated is an article by Lawrence Lessig that set me on a trail to some other Fair Use comments.

Lessig states:

The [Fair Use] doctrine, which has close counterparts in patent and trademark law, permits a degree of unauthorized copying of copyrighted works. Shocking! If a teenager takes a joyride in my car and is arrested, can he defend by arguing that it was a "fair use"? No, but the example points up an important difference between physical and intellectual property, a difference obscured by the use of words like "theft" and "piracy" to describe unauthorized copying. If someone takes my car, he deprives me of its use. If he copies my copyrighted book, I still can read, use, and sell the book, although my publisher's and my income may be less because one fewer copy will be sold. But maybe not--maybe the copycat wouldn't have bought the book if he'd had to pay the retail price. And if instead of copying an entire book, a book reviewer quotes a paragraph from it, I may well be better off (in contrast, say, to someone who doesn't want to drive my car but just store stuff in the trunk); and if he had to get my permission to quote, I might be worse off, especially since reviews would lack credibility if reviewers needed the author's permission to quote. Unauthorized quotation by book reviewers is an example of fair use.

Notes in the article led me to:

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyrigh...er9/index.html

There's more...

Bottom line, I'll copy music I already bought and paid for for my own use with newer playback technology and for day-to-day use (so the original is my backup).

Regards,
Keith

[stoney]

Originally Posted by keith

Fair Use Elaborated is an article by Lawrence Lessig that set me on a trail to some other Fair Use comments.

Lessig states:

The [Fair Use] doctrine, which has close counterparts in patent and trademark law, permits a degree of unauthorized copying of copyrighted works. Shocking! If a teenager takes a joyride in my car and is arrested, can he defend by arguing that it was a "fair use"? No, but the example points up an important difference between physical and intellectual property, a difference obscured by the use of words like "theft" and "piracy" to describe unauthorized copying. If someone takes my car, he deprives me of its use. If he copies my copyrighted book, I still can read, use, and sell the book, although my publisher's and my income may be less because one fewer copy will be sold. But maybe not--maybe the copycat wouldn't have bought the book if he'd had to pay the retail price. And if instead of copying an entire book, a book reviewer quotes a paragraph from it, I may well be better off (in contrast, say, to someone who doesn't want to drive my car but just store stuff in the trunk); and if he had to get my permission to quote, I might be worse off, especially since reviews would lack credibility if reviewers needed the author's permission to quote. Unauthorized quotation by book reviewers is an example of fair use.

Notes in the article led me to:

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyrigh...er9/index.html

There's more...

Bottom line, I'll copy music I already bought and paid for for my own use with newer playback technology and for day-to-day use (so the original is my backup).

Regards,
Keith

There is a reason I NEVER PURCHASE SONY PRODUCTS. Look at their history.
They developed BetaMax video and wanted to contoll the entire market themslves including all profits. Where is BetaMax now?

Also REMEMBER Sony brought us the famous "ROOTKIT".

I HAVE NO TRUST IN THIS COMPNAY OR IT"S PRODUCTS!!!!