more fatcats come out swinging against digital music

This time its Real's CEO, Rob Glaser:

About half the music on iPods is music obtained illegitimately either from an illegal peer-to-peer networks or from ripping friends' CDs, which is illegal.... If you want interoperable music today, there is a very easy solution:
it's called stealing... it's the only way to get non-copy protected,
portable, interoperable music.

Ok, Item The First: if only half the music is "stolen", then that must mean half the music is bought, right?  That's a pretty big f'ing deal for iTMS--five years ago, you could pretty much count on all the music being downloaded from peer-to-peer networks or ripped off CD's, which leads us to...

Item The Second:  Ripping your CD's OR your friends CD's isn't illegal.  Sharing for personal use among your friends is now and always has been fair use, despite what the RIAA wants you to believe.  Uploading it to a server for all the world to grab... not so much. 

What Glaser is really pissed about is that nobody's playing music from Real's music store on iPods.  Sour grapes.

What is it about CEO's that makes them such asshats?