Downloading music

Downloading music
Dangerous and Illegal?

If I were to steal a CD from a shop, that shop would loose that particular CD - they would not be able to sell it, AND they would have actually lost one of those copies.

When you commit a copywrite violation, (at least from the point of you acquiring a copy for yourself ) they still have their CD in the shop, which can be sold, they don't 'loose' anything, they may not gain a sale of it to you. but there is a difference between that and actually making them 'loose' something.

My point is there is a difference between 'loosing' something and 'not gaining' something.

I also think there is a significant moral difference between selling burnt CDs and either downloading or uploading them, as selling the burnt cds your doing it for profit.

Consider this, unless you have a lot of money, you probably can't afford to buy all the stuff you've downloaded. So if you were not going to buy it anyway, they have not lost a sale to you... in eff...