Sony reckons everyone's a pirate
Found on The Inquirer on Tuesday, 02 October 2007
In testimony in the flagship Capitol Records, et al versus Jammie Thomas Jennifer Pariser, case, the head of litigation for Sony BMG told the world that it was piracy for someone to back-up a CD they have bought or upload it onto their MP3 player.
She said that when an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, Sony can say he stole a song." Making "a copy" of a purchased song is just "a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy'.
This suggests that punters have no 'fair use' rights to make backups of the music that they have purchased.
Well, if I'm a pirate anyway, no matter if I buy the CD or not, then why should I bother paying at all? Instead of buying 100 CDs for eg $20 each, you could (theoretically of course) download them and save the money. If you have bad luck and get caught, you can settle for those $2000 you saved.