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Universal Wants a Slice of Apple's iPod Pie
vought writes "According to a Reuters report, Universal is now taking the precendent set by Microsoft's Zune and moving to force Apple to include a royalty payment with each iPod.
In the words of Universal Music's Doug Morris, 'These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it. So it's time to get paid for it.' Does Microsoft's precedent mean the start of a slippery slope that will add a 'pirate tax' to every piece of hardware that touches digital music?"
What's next, are we going to convict KitchenAid for assault with a deadly weapon?
I think Mr. Morris should be modded down for his obviously riotous and hateful flamebait of a statement.
Doug Morris: Steve, I think we should get $1 for every iPod you sell.
Steve Jobs: No.
Doug Morris: We asked Microsoft for $1 for each Zune sold, and they said "Yes".
Steve Jobs: They were desperate. We're not. By the way, how has the Zune deal been working out for you?
Doug Morris: So far, we've gotten $52.
Hey, what did the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ever do to you? (ducks)
make world, not war
If they are going to legalize piracy, I can see them putting "pirate taxes" to a lot more things...
"ADSL modems! They all know they are being used to download illegal mp3s (well, and porn)"
"Monitors! Everybody knows people use them to find songs to download illegally"
"Mice! Everyone knows that they are mainly used to download songs illegally"
"And don't even get me started on chairs, food and houses. They are only being used to maintain themselves so they can download more music!"
I should get a royalty for every wasted tax dollar, every minute I've wasted listening to the same damn song over and over, every wasted hour I've spent watching Hollywood shite. My life has been STOLEN from me and now it's time to get paid. For every SECOND of crappy music played anywhere in the world, I propose I get a royalty of .0001 cents. I need that every month in the form of gold bullion. All I need is a few dozen senators to take my bribes and pass a law and there's nothing they can do. They have to pay me.
Cool! Amazing Toys.
Mr. Morris is right! As he said, we all know it. We don't need any proof or anything like that, and we don't care about exceptions. You need to pay!
Likewise, are just a bunch of criminals and scum. We all know it. So why don't we just lock them all up and gas them? Or at least force them to pay a "criminal fee" since we all know they're criminals.
(BTW, this post is sarcasm in case it's not obvious to some of you.)
I hate frivolous lawsuits as much as the next honest bloke, but having all ipod owners unite and sue Doug Morris for defamation would be worth the trouble. He just called us all thieves without proof.
And suddenly the amount of Motown, Mercury, and Polydor catalog music would flood the P2P and BitTorrent servers.
Does that mean they'd also have a tax for not being deaf?
"You heard music without paying for it! Either pay the tax or we'll bring you to court!"
Ears, you missed ears....
Universal should be paying me to listen to the crap.
Gee, thanks! You just filled in step #2 of the RIAA's business model...
1. Buy off legislature
2. Create new version of sales tax on everything ever made
3. PROFIT!!!
If you had just stayed quiet, they never would've figured it out.
Hey, we'll import your prescription drugs and you can import our tax free CDRs/DVDRs and we'll call it even :)
Nope, i hold that patents on ears, they cant tax them without paying me first.
Nope, i hold that patents on ears, they cant tax them without paying me first.
So that's why no one ever listens when I talk! There's a licensing fee!
>chairs will probably be thrown
Steve had better hope there's no RIAA dude nearby, they'll hear the rythmic clatter of the chair along the floor, decide it sounds like some industrial band and fine him for illegal reproduction in a public area.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil