iPod owners are 'thieves', according to Universal Music CEO, Doug Morris. Morris was discussing Microsoft's recent attempt to buy its way into the music industry by paying a $1 per unit royalty on Zune players sold. The music boss revealed that he had insisted on such a royalty in order to include Universal's music catalogue on the Zune marketplace. "These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it," Morris said. "It's time to get paid for it," he added, according to Billboard. Source: Macworld UK
Kind of funny I could have sworn those 1000 or so cd's I have were bought at a store. Guess since I must have stolen them all Universal should give me back my money for any titles I own from their catalogue . I know the recording industry tried the same thing here in Canada by charging a levy on blank cd's and any HD based MP3 players, which didn't seem to last too long, hopefully this won't either.
