The elite class expects this to be a big issue? I'm sorry, if the RIAA thinks it is important for this country to expend one resource dollar to protect them against the public, then their priorities are totally misapplied. If I buy one CD with what I consider 2 good tracks on it, why can't I copy those tracks along with others I like into a CD and then share it with friends? I paid the poor starving artist when I bought the product. What in the hell gives the RIAA the opinion that they should check the computers of people. The elite left is nothing but Nazis and those who agree with them are too.
If I buy one CD with what I consider 2 good tracks on it, why can't I copy those tracks along with others I like into a CD and then share it with friends? Because it's against the law! Is that so difficult to understand???
If you do not own the copyright (i.e. "the right to copy"), you do not have the right to copy. It's a federal law. Simple as that! Do you still need to ask "why can't I?"
For your convenience, the relevant parts of the above link state:
the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
You are
not that "owner of copyright", so you are barred from doing either of these. Pretty cut and dried.