You see, MisteR2, the record companies have a bass-ackwards way of thinking about things. They like to make up numbers and give wild exaggerations about how much they've "lost" due to sharing, ("piracy") but how many of those people would have otherwise bought copies from them? Not many. They have set up a system the puts profits ahead of the well-being of society, but woe to anyone who disobeys their regime. Surprisingly, much of the public is behind them, in the sense that they support them by buying their music, and frequently swallow the propaganda that it's wrong to share. I often hear it from people myself. And you know what? It is true to some degree that , the more people that don't buy into their rubbish and share music anyway, the less money the record industry makes, but that doesn't make it wrong. I'm quite sure the slave trade was decimated after the American Civil War, but only a slave owner would consider it harmful. That's exactly what the record industry is: an enslaver of music. And I think it's as wrong to "own" information as it is to own a human being.
