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Ah, but why are you taking a copy? Is it perhaps because it has value to you? That it entertains? If so, then someone had to go through the process of creation to produce it. Not unlike building a house. They deserve something to compensate them. That seems to be the general argument of the recent and current generations... that just because they can't pay for something shouldn't preclude them having it... "they are entitled to it". WRONG! If it has value to you, then pay for it. This is not to say that I support the RIAA... they have been excessivly draconian in the measures they have taken. I don't think they should be able to get a greater amount of fees from internet stations which carry a song than a FM radio station would have to pay for the same song. It should be no different. The laws already exist to protect against copyright infringement, they don't need to add NEW laws to protect against specific forms of CI, just enforce the old ones. How physical is physical... an idea in your head which hasn't been realized isn't physical, but once you have realized it through generation of a song, like writing it on paper, you have a physical product (and the performance is physical). If you develop a computer program, it exists as magnetic domains on a disk, or as patterns of electrons in a bit stream... electrons are just as physical. You're entitled to your belief... but I won't shed a tear if you steal IP and are caught... Megan