For real, Sony – how low can you go?
[Jennifer Pariser, the head of litigation for Sony BMG] …has a very broad definition of “stealing.” When questioned by Richard Gabriel, lead counsel for the record labels, Pariser suggested that what millions of music fans do is actually theft. The dirty deed? Ripping your own CDs or downloading songs you already own.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.
and after comments like this they STILL blame customers… eh, sorry, they blame pirates that “Sony BMG is half the size now as it was in 2000”.
Right.
via: Ars Technica