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studios revive the RIAA's "making a copy" equates to "stealing
one copy" argument  The RIAA and music labels gained a bit more
notoriety when one of its associates, Sony BMG's head of
litigation Jennifer Pariser, remarked during a case, "When an
individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can
say he stole a song." Making "a copy" of a purchased song is
just "a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy'."  Now the
MPAA, which typically follows closely in the RIAA's footsteps,
is suing software maker RealNetworks and making similar
remarks.  In a similar mentality, which some say punishes the
paying customer, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox,
Universal Studios, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, the Walt
Disney Company and Sony have all filed suit against the company,
which claims it only wants to provide content owners with a
means of backing up their DVDs.  Greg Goeckner, executive vice
president and general counsel for