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?"

Comments

Re:To Doug Morris...

[Anonymous Coward]

All of my music has been purchased on CD or the iTunes Music store

You do know that RIAA considers ripping your CDs to be a copyright violation and forbidden by the Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA) of 1992? The argument is along the lines of: if you buy a paperback copy of a book, you are not entitled to a hardback version, an e-version, a large-type version, an audio version, a spanish version, etc. You bought a CD album. You are not, as a result of that purchase, entitled to an mp3/aac/flac version of that music as well.

So let's just say your "legal" library of ipod music is anything but...

Re:Well ...

[Penguinoflight]

I was going to be nice, but since you're the third slashdotter to mention that all your music is legal (woohoo): here. Of course you dont have pirated songs on your iPod. If you were smart enough to pirate songs, you wouldn't have got an iPod.