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Perhaps so, and you're certainly entitled to your opinion. I'm not so sure it is stealing, because if I pay for a product (a CD), I should certainly be able to do with it as I wish. Some just choose to take their property, which they bought legally, and do with it as they please, i.e. share it with their peers.

You also seem to fixate upon the expense of the item supposedly stolen. According to the law, the articles posted here on Freerepublic are a copyright violation. What is your position on this? Does the copyright law not apply because of the supposed value of the news articles?

I'm more troubled by people who selectively apply copyrights upon a whim, contorting and manipulating the law to fit their own morality, and then judge when others don't fit in with their idea of morality as not worthy "to be conservative".

I say this not because I disagree about what the law IS. I just disagree about WHY. Obviously, the people who post news articles on Freerepublic are probably aware of the law, in light of the problems here in the past. But, they also think it is a stupid law, because they violate it every day. You obviously think so too, because you allow yourself to be associated with it.

The people who download music are no different.