[FONT=arial]Sorry Filo, I thought you were either being sarky or down right rude! Again sorry, but Hello

Lets clear up this law business, When you buy a cd or dvd, in effect all you are doing is buying a licence to play that material for your own personal enjoyment. The purchase does not allow you copy, sell, or lend the material without permission from the copyright holder.

I don't know exactly how it works in America, but over here in England, it is even illegal to copy your own cd collection to your hard drive - The CD police are not exactly going to call round to check, but this is the letter of the law.
I think though it's a case of so many people do it - judges and the police included - that you would end up clogging up the courts with minor copy theft charges, although stranger things have been known, watch this space....

SONY are well known for working both side of the fence when it comes to copyright, they own both music and movie publishing/distribution companies, but they also manufacture walkmans... their software Sonicstage was an example of protecting their interests.
This software was produced to allow MiniCD owner to copy music from the hard drive of thier computer (illegal, remember!) onto a miniCD player, heres the catch though! the early versions of the program would only let you transfere a track 3 times - when you finished with a track on your player, it had to be transfered back?? most users have given Sony the finger ,,1, and now use Real player.
Was'nt Sonic forge a music sequencer? I did'nt know it could copy, but then most music software can these days.

Think thats fun? 10 years ago, while DVDs were in their infancy, Sony wanted to install a time limit on thier discs, so oyu could watch the movie... say 5 times and after that you had to pay to watch your film. Thank heavens thats a plan that never came to bare fruit.

And Finally..
I really need to correct you on this Candle in the wind thing.
When it was re-released as "England Rose" a very large portion of the procedes went to the Terrence Higgins Trust, a charity for AIDS victims - a cause which Diana supported in life. The remainder went into the production of the discs and admin, etc...
Elton John was a personal friend of Diana's and did'nt recieve one penny.

If you want to point fingers though, try George Lucas.. How many times has he re-released Star Wars, Talk about new money for old rope!