Comments on: Sony BMG: ‘Making a Copy of Purchased Music is Considered Stealing’

By: meyou123

meyou123 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I hope that this backfires on them BIG!

If people start to realize that what they are saying is that they cannot even have a backup copy of music THEY purchased themselves…the general public just might get a glimpse of how idiotic the music industry is and turn against them

But REGARDLESS of what Sony says….the LAW says you CAN have a backup copy so SCREW THEM!

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Doesn’t this fall under this act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act ? to which if I understand correctly has been already debated in court that ripping a disc to your computer is not infringement?

By: Xtripit

Xtripit — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I stopped buying anything Sony/BGM after I found it impossible to rip it on to my PC and on top of it all would have to use some crappy player on the disk for playback. I just hope many others have done the same thing. They have been shooting themselves in the foot for a long time. It was also them that had some copyprotect on the CDs that would make your disk drive disappear when removed of the computer.

I just hope they lose this case and lose it bigtime

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

@Mountain
Thats what I thought but the RIAA’s always had its own twisted sense of logic.

By: meyou123

meyou123 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

@Mountian….yes that was the court battle I was referring to.

So it really does not make any difference if Sony says ripping your own purchased music is illegal it would not stand up in a court of law.

By: Burd

Burd — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

The dinosaur is dying a slow and agonizing death. CD’s are going the way of vinyl and cassette tapes. Artists don’t even NEED a recording contract any more. Others will follow Radiohead’s lead and offer their music directly to the public. All the record companies can do is bleed every last drop of blood out the the customers that they have remaining for now.

Some people still do buy CD’s but that’s just because it’s a bad habit. They don’t know any better or–as usually is the case with many things–they are too lazy or too old to change. But soon the people who are now young will become older and THEY certainly won’t be buying CD’s!

The record companies will follow the older CD-buying generation to the grave. Those who don’t adapt don’t survive (Darwin).