Reply #61: It applies the logic to making copies of songs [View All]

[Ignacio Upton]

The copies of songs that appear on file sharing networks are originally from people making copies from their CD's. How else could so many songs be online in the first place? Those songs were not part of the for-sale inventory, so to say that it's stealing is ridiculous. People have been making copies of songs and giving them to their friends for years in the form of mix-tapes. However, it is a problem, in that a large-scale parallel market exists (unlike home taping, making CD-R copies, or copying songs via USB flash drive) that could supplant the regular market.