People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
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Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time.
Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.
Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.
People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.
Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.
I'm happy if my music is being downloaded, whether it's legally or illegally.
We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.
Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.
There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.