Hello William, Saturday, November 30, 2002, you wrote:

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I think burning a CD technically is NOT stealing at all. Stealing is taking somebody's else property away, so this person doesn't have it anymore.

WC> Well, it is stealing. It's stealing the artist's royalty that WC> otherwise would have been paid if the burned-copy-recipient had WC> bought a legit copy instead. Still, technically it is not. The artist's royalty probably is underpaid, but there is no stealing. NP: Charlie Christian "Genius Of Electric Guitar" (CD) -- Best regards, Peter Gannushkin e-mail: shkin@shkin.com URL: http://www.downtownmusic.net/