[mhking]

why do you need a backup?

Quite frankly, that's none of your business - using the same logic, why do you need a backup of a cassette or a book or a magazine or a videotape?

The "why" is immaterial.

You want to debate the logic of actually getting it, fine. But when you get into challenging the "why", you begin treading on an individuals sovreign rights. For all you know, the backup copy is so that the original can be crushed in a compactor. As long as the copy is not being sold, it shouldn't matter.

[Jack Wilson]

When you buy a song or a movie, you are not really the new owner of that work; you are merely a licensee. The proponents of digital theft apparently feel that someone can spend a year and millions of dollars producing a work and then is only entitled to sell one copy of that work. Or is even that considered greed? Everyone else who wants a free copy is entitled to it?

Anyone else see the irony in Kazaa complaining about copyright infringement?