Apple To Pay Royalty Payments For Ipods?

[Dubh Aingeal]

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?

[Lilith]

So does that mean the price of Dell and other name brand PCs is going to go up because people like myself build our own computers then install pirated versions of Microsoft and Apple's operating systems on them?

for some reason i found that so funny!

[Msterbeau]

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:

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?

I read that the other day. Doug Morris is lawyer who's whole schtick is "advocating" for the media businesses regarding file sharing and copyright. He lines his pockets pretending to be a white knight for these issues.