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my problem with what the RIAA is doing is, I can't see how this falls under copyright infringement.
No one is making derivative music from anything they have, and no one (in the general group we're discussing) is trying to profit from the sharing. They're simply sharing. For free.
If someone is burning CDs and selling bootleg copies at a swap meet, sure... blatant, obvious, copyright infringement for profit. But how does sharing your CD (non-profit) with a friend constitute copyright infringement? Because they didn't PAY for it? I find that hard to swallow too. If I feel like it, I'll box up my entire CD & DVD collections and give them away to whoever the hell I choose. Is that also "copyright infringement"?
I think not. But that is what the RIAA is claiming, in a nutshell.
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