[rivercat]

If the company is selling me rights to view/listen/copy a product on a particular device, then that is their right. Your choice is not to purchase their product. Maybe the lower sales will convince them to change their policy.

Another way to look at this would be that once the majority of devices support DRM, then the content producers would be more inclined to permit sharing across devices because they would potentially have more assurance that the content is being used by the person that purchased the use of the content in question.

Are you a pirate or thief? I don't know. What do the Terms of Service or law state about the content that you are copying to another device (your MP3 player)? If it says you may copy it to any MP3 player, then you are not, if it forbids this, then yes, you may be a pirate.

[postaldave]

i must be a pirate then eventhough i only have my own purchased music.

example. if you purchase the velvet revolver album, M$ allows that CD to PLANT A VIRUS ON YOUR COMPUTER so that you can't copy it. now that was easy enough to work around but that is not the point.

the point is YOU are calling ME a pirate because WE disagree on fair use in copyright law.

would you support a copyright law that said
"if you buy my album you can't vote for a republican"

you REALLY need to know where you stand on that before giving free ticket to the copyright lawyers.