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?"

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Greedy Bastards

[JohnnyJWalker]

Does the Universal company, as a whole, not have enough money already. We should start a shitty movie movie tax. Every time i sit down and waste a couple hours of my life watching some piss poor excuse for a movie, that universal worked ever so hard to present, i should get %10 of my hourly wage.

Re:Fuckin' A Right!

[dangitman]

Differentials in speed cause accidents.

So, it's the people driving over the speed limit who are causing the differential. If they obeyed the law, then there wouldn't be a problem.

If everyone drives 80, that is safer than most people driving 55 and a couple driving 35.

But if everybody was driving at 35, then it would be much safer. It's those who break the limit who are responsible for the speed differential.

IF there is accident at 80, damage and injuries will be more severe, but it is far more likely that someone going 55 and someone else going 35 will have that accident.

And going at 80 means an accident is much more likely to happen, because it allows less reaction time, and causes greater stopping distance when unforseen incidents occur.