The recording industry, for the most part, suggests that it is wrong to copy works from others and perhaps return profits for them. ... They don't agree with web sites distributing free music files of which has copyright protection. ... They can advise governments on the laws needed to protect artists and their creations. ... They are the international organization responsible for global copyright protection and enforcement. ... The record industry is trying to fight the major sites and companies in court with copyright suits. ...

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Copyright lawsuits are beginning to get ridiculous. ... As long as a person copies a CD they purchased to their hard drive, and distributes it to others through P2P, it should be legal. ... This should not infringe any copyright laws or upset any organizations like the RIAA....

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On the one hand, there are those corporate monsters that scream copyright infringement and push with litigation. The recording industry, for the most part, suggests that it is wrong to copy works from others and perhaps return profits for them. ... They don't agree with web sites distributing free music files of which have copyright protection. ... They can advise governments on the laws needed to protect artists and their creations. ... They are the international organization responsible for global copyright protection and enforcement. ...

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Numerous record labels quickly filed suits claiming Napster file sharing violates the copyright laws of their intellectual property. ... In an attempt to further expand their case, a press release by the RIAA declared that the number of burned CD's worldwide is proximate to the number of CD's sold through retail on the condition that just half of the blank discs sold in 2001 were used to copy music (qtd. in Boucher). Having read this information, "you"d have to assume... that if it weren't for personally copied music, CD sales would be double, and with the copying they should h...

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