At least from what I am reading below.... I happen to use Itunes and also make CDs. 

 

So how serious is the record industry about this whole “if you share files, you are stealing music” stance?

 

This serious: Yesterday Sony BMG's head of litigation testified before the jury that making copies of purchased music is just "a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy.'"

 

That’s right, according to Sony, even if you legally purchase the music, you are not allowed to makes copies under any circumstance. That means, Sony considers transferring songs to iPods and Zunes “stealing.” They would prefer you re-buy the music for every format you want it in. So you buy it on CD, then re-buy it as an mp3 for your iPod, then re-buy it for your Zune, then re-buy it if you want to copy it for a friend, re-buy it to stick on a personal mixtape CD, and so on.

 

Does that makes sense…or make Sony a bunch of greedy bastards?

 

 

Well, let’s say I buy a bag of Sony carrots. My original intention is to eat those carrots, but then I decide I’d rather use them in a salad. Sony would prefer that I go buy more carrots because I didn’t originally intend for the carrots to go into a salad. Then I decide to make soup. I can use any one of the many Sony carrots I’ve already purchased that are sitting in my fridge, right? Nope. Gotta buy new Sony carrots for that too. Now, let’s say you come to my house and ask me for a carrot to snack on. I should be able to just give you one of the many carrots I have already purchased, right? Nope, Sony wants me to buy more carrots for that too.

It looks like I am a music thief as well...

I do, too. I have burned cds from paid-for mp3s, and vice versa. Quick, put me in jail, I made salad out of soup carrots!

As I'm guessing Sony aren't a bunch of idiots, it's more likely a show for their clients and for musicians to buy into their label.

You give Sony execs too much credit Froix.... They are and always have been idiots as are most other greedy bastard label execs. Just witness the godawful contracts they bludgeon artists into signing. This is corporations taking the carrot they were given a few years ago and turning it into, "Oh no!! You gave us the whole field. Says so right here!!"

 

They will continue this until people say.. STOP. Then will come right back a few years later poor mouthing, "Oh woe is us!" ... They have had a hog trough for free since the mid seventies when they raised prices by over a hundred percent, with no increase in expenses and were allowed to do it with no outcry.

 

It takes less than a dollar to make a CD...

Quickly, quickly someone lock me up and throw away the key.

 

Yes, sir, Mr. Sony Man, I brought your CD and yes I downloaded it to my Ipod. I've been very naughty haven't I.

 

 

What absolute rubbish, those greedy @#$%^(insert bad word). I guess that all the money they have is just not enough and they need some more.  >:( >:(

 

Thats just plain stupid...besides, no one is going to buy multiple versions of the same album, it just won't happen!

 

I know those people were stupid...I didn't know they were THAT stupid!

Well considering the flop that is the PS3... I didn't have much respect for Sony BEFORE.. now there is none at all! I bought the freakin music, it is mine!

Oh a copy here and there won't hurt the music business that much and if it did we'll probably have better music. The kind that's not made for money.

I think it's just plain ridiculous. I do not intend to pay twice for the same stuff :-)

Ok, I could understand making a copy for somebody else being a problem, but making a copy for your own purposes??? COME ON!!!  The way I see it, I purchased the CD, it's mine to do with as I please!  If I want to make a copy to put on my MP3 player, guess what!  It's still my CD!  What really ticks me off is that if you play your music where somebody else besides you can hear it, that actually constitutes a "public performance"!  At a store I used to work at, we actually got in trouble with the police for playing our own personal CD's over the store's stereo system.  As a musician and a performer myself I can understand and sympathise with the labels to a certain extent (ie. I won't make a copy of a CD for anybody but myself, and I won't ask somebody to make a copy of a CD for me) but be reasonable.