Once I buy it they should have no say in what I do with it. Its now my property and if I want to go throw it into a lake so the fish can make copies that is my choice.
Once I buy it they should have no say in what I do with it. Its now my property and if I want to go throw it into a lake so the fish can make copies that is my choice. If we were talking about a bicycle, yes. But we're talking about copyrighted material. It is, under copyright law, illegal to distribute copies of music. It's not "theft", it's "copyright infringement". Theft is for taking something of value without paying. Copyright infringement is eliminating potential value of something.