@ Harry
called "piracy". "The practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea"
Don't go calling a duck an apple, the Recording industry does enough of that as it is.
It's called Copyright Infringement
as you know.
As there are at present court cases deciding if its legal to sell your second hand mp3 files, I bet E-books will be next.
The whole thing need a bit of a shake up, as this transition from physical media to digital data is causing all sorts of problems.