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Agreed. I'm very much against downloading copyrighted material, and do think it should be illegal.
But the terms and laws have to be very clear. It's not file sharing that's illegal, it's file sharing material that's copyrighted that's illegal.
Artists and labels and publishers should have laws and enforcement efforts to protect their copyrighted material that they choose to sell and not give away. And I support being very aggressive on that front as you well know.
But that doesn't mean that file sharing itself is wrong, nor that it can't be a tool to help fledgling musicians, authors etc. break out without having to bend over and sign terrible contracts. That said, once they break out and decide to no longer use file sharing, streaming etc., their should be hardcore enforcement efforts to prevent/limit their material from getting to people who didn't pay for it.
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