More great news of industry imploding


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122800693.html
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Well I can see the industry's point to a certain extent. Why buy a CD, if you can go to somebody's website and download whatever CDs they have stored there "for free"? Especially if someone, has thousands of titles on their site. It's one thing, to have your own collection on your hard drive, or even making an extra copy of a CD for your personal use in your car, or downloading it to your own personal Ipod. But it's something completely different, when you leave you collection open so that "ANYBODY" with a computer and internet connection can easily access it, then the industry has a "valid point" about shutting these sites down. It's a helluva lot of money being lost. And for those who go to these sites, and download whole commercial CDs simple because they can and it's free. Then you're "theives" pure and simple, and please "spare" the justification that it's "alright" because the recording industry charges so much per CD, ect. If you take without paying the legimate owners what it's worth, then it's theft.