[Vickip]

Originally Posted by little_dancer

Here's the thing, I feel you're missing. People are stealing music. Whether or not this affects sales is really not relevant-(to my point, obviously it is relevant to the artist, and the record company) what is relevant is the fact that people seem to believe that they have the RIGHT to take music for free. Artists copyright their work because they make their living on what they create. It is wrong for people to believe that buying an album gives them all the rights to that album, it only gives you the priviledge of listening to it. There is a real moral delema going on in the world right now re: the rights of artists. I, for one, do not believe that an artist's work is public property. I really can't blame them for taking any measures that are available to them to prevent music piracy, even if you are not the type of person to upload these files for shareware, most seem to be. Copy-protection is annoying, but this is a case of a few bad apples spoiling it for everybody. If people are willing to steal music, the rest of us are going to have to put up with the incovenience of copy-protected CD's

Very well said Leah .... you are absolutely right !!
Vicki