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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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I know that.
But many many people do not see the distinction.
They do not know they are doing anything wrong, so changing the name of the thing they don't know they are doing won't have any effect.