I find it hard to believe we don't have better things to do with tax dollars then seeing if kids think copying music is wrong. For decdades kids have done this. Now that the music industry is getting hit hard with drops in sales they need to find an excuse for their over priced garbage. In a time where we are faced with high gas prices which in turn pushes the price of everything else up, delivery surcharges and such, we turn to the kids and blame them for the music industry's failure to see that there are other important things to purchase then cd's. Shame on the music industry to not notice that music has been copied from the begining of records, be it reel to reel, cassetts and now cd's. The consumer has always had the option to copy music. What was prevalant when I was a teen was dual cassett tape players and what was the purpose of having two cassett decks in one machine... to copy tapes. We now have so many things we can use to copy music it's not funny but it's always the users fault, not the company's that make this technology. MP3 players are so prevalant in today's society and seem to be ok to purchase yet each one can be considered illegal because all the music is a transfer of a copied file which was copied from a cd or a bought file on line. A copy is a copy no matter how you look at it. These kids are just doing what we all have been doing for the past 50 years, copying music. Right or wrong as long as technology is out there to reproduce anything we have, be it music, video or computer files, people will use it as it was intended to be used. Don't go after the people that use the technology as it was intended to be used, go after the companies that make this technology available to us. Stop crying recording industry, music will always be copied until you go after the companies that make it so damn easy to copy your product which I will again state, it has been done for the past 50 years!!!!
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I find it hard to believe we don't have better things to do with tax dollars then seeing if kids think copying music is wrong. For decdades kids have done this. Now that the music industry is getting hit hard with drops in sales they need to find an excuse for their over priced garbage. In a time where we are faced with high gas prices which in turn pushes the price of everything else up, delivery surcharges and such, we turn to the kids and blame them for the music industry's failure to see that there are other important things to purchase then cd's. Shame on the music industry to not notice that music has been copied from the begining of records, be it reel to reel, cassetts and now cd's. The consumer has always had the option to copy music. What was prevalant when I was a teen was dual cassett tape players and what was the purpose of having two cassett decks in one machine... to copy tapes. We now have so many things we can use to copy music it's not funny but it's always the users fault, not the company's that make this technology. MP3 players are so prevalant in today's society and seem to be ok to purchase yet each one can be considered illegal because all the music is a transfer of a copied file which was copied from a cd or a bought file on line. A copy is a copy no matter how you look at it. These kids are just doing what we all have been doing for the past 50 years, copying music. Right or wrong as long as technology is out there to reproduce anything we have, be it music, video or computer files, people will use it as it was intended to be used. Don't go after the people that use the technology as it was intended to be used, go after the companies that make this technology available to us. Stop crying recording industry, music will always be copied until you go after the companies that make it so damn easy to copy your product which I will again state, it has been done for the past 50 years!!!!