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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
That's not true any more. Technology has rendered the ability to control a creation into a very limited thing. You can only control obvious commercial exploitation of copyright, where there is enough money to be worth fighting over, but at the individual, non-commercial level, all control is lost.
Sorry, those are the facts. This does not preclude people buying copyrighted material, but buying has become a choice, not a necessity.
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It's still WRONG and there are plenty of folks who choose to be ethical. They don't steal, not because they fear getting caught, but because they have a personal sense of ethics.
Getting around DRM is still something outside the skills of a lot of people. But you're right that personal piracy of music is rampant. Still, American Idol can't get away with not paying royalties to the artists who's songs are used. And individuals have been sued by the music industry.
Lee