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When a consumer listens to purchased music in his/her car and has the windows rolled down, pedestrians and other drivers on the road are stealing music.

No dude, it's cool, just as long as said music consumer in the car is paying royalty fees to ASCAP/BMI, if not then yeah that's definitely stealing both by those other pedestrians AND the car driver. :thumbup

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When a consumer listens to purchased music in his/her car and has the windows rolled down, pedestrians and other drivers on the road are stealing music.

Apparently, I steal a lot of nu-metal from seventeen year old boys in Dodge Ram pickups. They can have it back!

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of course since things tend to slide towards the middle it could be that the lawyers are arguing an extreme position with the hope that they get a judgment that is more tenable to their needs.

 

Kinda like when Scorsese filmed the "head in a vice" scene for Casino assuming it'd get cut, thereby saving the other shots of violence from standing out to the ratings board. But it didn't get cut. (dun-dun-dun-duuhhnn)

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On a (semi) related note, when you get a promo CD that's watermarked, by breaking the seal on it you agree to a whole host of things. One of these is that no-one else can listen to it AT ALL. Therefore, when you're in your car and listen to it with the windows down or if someone comes round the house when you've got it on the stereo, you're breaking the agrement. Madness.

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On a (semi) related note, when you get a promo CD that's watermarked, by breaking the seal on it you agree to a whole host of things. One of these is that no-one else can listen to it AT ALL. Therefore, when you're in your car and listen to it with the windows down or if someone comes round the house when you've got it on the stereo, you're breaking the agrement. Madness.

Those promo cd's are also the "property" of the record labels forever, so if they really wanted to be dicks they could demand them all back.

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This is just ridiculous. Greed, bad business; call it what you want. I really feel like they're hearing the death cry and reaching for anything they can to save their asses. Maybe Sony should consider spending their money on a revamped business plan, not litigation for outrageous, senseless bullshit. This is, afterall, the company who installed spyware on all of their users computers. It's gonna be funny when the Playstation 3 and Blu-Ray both fail.

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Those promo cd's are also the "property" of the record labels forever, so if they really wanted to be dicks they could demand them all back.

 

i think they'd be obliged to pay for shipping though, since it's mostly unsolicited items... this would clearly result in me shipping each disc back in a tv box, via airmail, "protected" by 50 pounds of bricks.

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:lol

 

When I discovered that the Sloan CD I bought was copy protected, I vowed NEVER to buy another album on that sad, evil little label again. Sony BMG is truly the worst of the worst!

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