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AGREED, the record companies own the music under US copyright law. They could charge $100 a Cd and it would still be ok, because it's THIERs. Just like a used car salesman doesn't have to sell you that car for a fair value, he can sell it for whatever he wants, it's the consumer's job to make sure that they only pay what the value is. If you were to grab the keys for a test drive and take off with the said car without asking the salesman you would be stealing, just as downloading music without permission is stealing. For some reason though, it is thought to be ok for people to do this... Trust me, I DL music too, but I simply deleted Kazaa when this whole thing came out and will lay low for a while until some new and improved method for DLing music or obtaining music comes along. Either way, you can't really complain and you can only hope that the whole thing will blow over, and remember... there is no way in hell that people are going to just take it and start eating $15 a CD for new music, no way in hell.
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