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Sony forgets about fair use
Sony took the stand yesterday in a court case about copying music and claimed that making a backup of a bought music CD is piracy.
What confuses me is that spokesperson, the head of litigation for Sony BMG, also said that uploading bought music to an MP3 also constitued piracy. I'm confused because Sony sells quite a few MP3 players.
Reading the manual for the Sony NW-E013F MP3 player (direct link to PDF) reveals references to copying from CD on pages 71,93. The quick start guide for Sonic Stage also talks about importing music from CDs.
As the Inquirer points out, that's technically true in the UK but not really enforced. Not that it would be very hard to enforce. Sorry, it would due to the sheer volume of PCs that would be implicated.
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