Using such programs such as KaZaA, Morpheus, and Bearshare, pc users can easily download shared files for free which raises questions about the copyrighting and infringements laws. ... MP3 programs should be allowed because it is not posing much of a threat to the record industries, is convenient and affordable, and would cost too much money to enforce copyright laws. ... Napster, an MP3 program shut down because the music industries felt it violated copyright laws, was only the beginning. ... "Any college kid with a tuition-paid account can readily copy any digital work and send it to t...

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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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However it all comes down to copyright law, as the body of exclusive rights protecting artist's work from being copied without their authorization. ... Perhaps it all happened so fast it has taken this long to react, but recently artist have been lashing out in attempts to sue music distributing and file-swapping Internet sites, in one case demanding a hundred thousand for each song illegally copied. ... Our responsibility now is to deal with the situation and force the law to actually catch up and adapt to illegal music distribution over the Internet....

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