Quote Originally Posted by Scurvy
they have every right to overprice them, they have to make a profit, and as a business organisation their job is to make the largest profit possible, if consumers were not willing to buy cd's at these prices, then the company would have to lower them (and to an extent this is happening)

that is no way to justify stealing - just because your being ripped off doesnt justify taking it for free
Isn't it in the consumers interest to make sure that they get the best deal possible? So if the buisness is ripping you off and you stumbles on a virtual gold mine... It's not like people will have severe moral problems ripping off companies that overcharges them.

And it's not stealing, it's breaching of copywright laws. Why is it important to seperate them? Because had it been stealing (with that counting that someone is losing something in the process), it wouldn't been a successful phenomena.

IMO, the sueings is more or less the death-spasms (for those who doesn't adapt) for the giants in the music industry who are unwilling to lose thier gold-mine in a changing industry. As file-sharing is here to stay, for better or worse.