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Anyone who says downloading is "legal" is simply ignorant of the law; I'm sorry. Now, if you want to make an argument that downloading is not morally reprehensible, I'll be more than happy to join you in agreement. I'll even agree that the law should reflect what we think is and is not morally reprehensible. But, the simple fact of the matter is that it does not, and downloading is most certainly copyright infringment (when not done so through means approved by the copyright holder).
The idea that you are downloading "in good faith" is absolutely ludicrous. You know full well that the person sharing the file on Kazaa or whatever other network did not pay some exorbinant fee for the right (which no music publisher would give out) to distribute it freely. I can buy the good faith argument for sites like allofmp3.com but not at all for networks such as FastTrack (Kazaa) or bittorrent or whatever else.
If you want to win the debate over file sharing, it must be done with honesty. Creating strenuous loopholes in logic simply doesn't work and won't be effective in the long-run.
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"Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling
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