And what you're taking away is the money they should have received for you purchasing their product.
You seem to be fundamentally confused as to what is "the product". Allow me to clarify:
When you buy a record, no copyright whatsoever is bought. Got it? You are not purchasing a right to the music in any way, in fact you have as little "right" to it now as before you bought it. The only thing you do have is the physical product, the CD (or MD, or vinyl record or what have you). You're not buying "the music" in any way, it's still very much owned by the artists and/or whatever corporate entity they might (and probably) have signed off rights to.
Assuming that downloading has anything to do with the potential sale of the product is so completely and utterly wrong, because the process in fact has nothing to do with the product being offered.
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You seem to be fundamentally confused as to what is "the product". Allow me to clarify:
When you buy a record, no copyright whatsoever is bought. Got it? You are not purchasing a right to the music in any way, in fact you have as little "right" to it now as before you bought it. The only thing you do have is the physical product, the CD (or MD, or vinyl record or what have you). You're not buying "the music" in any way, it's still very much owned by the artists and/or whatever corporate entity they might (and probably) have signed off rights to.
Assuming that downloading has anything to do with the potential sale of the product is so completely and utterly wrong, because the process in fact has nothing to do with the product being offered.