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Originally Posted by murraypaul
The point being that not all infringement is done knowingly by evil pirates. People routinely share MP3 files, as they had previously shared CDs, and wouldn't realise that they were doing anything wrong.
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The fundamental difference is that when you lend someone a CD, there's only the one CD being passed around. When you "share" an MP3 file, you're creating another copy of it; there are now two MP3 files where previously there was only one. That's why copyright law gets involved. It's not the lending that's the issue, but the unauthorised reproduction.