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Originally Posted by HarryT
Totally agree. It is pure sophistry to try to pretend that taking away an author's income is anything other than theft, regardless of what the law might choose to call it.
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....and home taping is killing music.
That is slightly oversimplifying things though. Calling copyright infringement theft assumes that those people would have paid for a copy were it not available for free which is often not the case.
I don't know what the answer is yet but file sharing for good or bad is here to stay, any industry based on selling something which can be shared digitally will have to adapt.