Hello Adam, Saturday, November 30, 2002, you wrote: AM> Burning unauthorized audio IS stealing. 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. If I steal a bottle of soda from the store, it will miss one bottle of soda. If I copy a CD the artist won't miss anything because he didn't have it in the first place. Of course if I buy his CD he will gain something which he didn't have before. That's a big difference between stealing and unauthorized copying. When you making a copy you are multiplying things, not transferring them from one place to another. Therefor it is much more complicated issue, because, for example, multiplying things makes them to become more popular and bring more money to the people who created them. For instance look at the jam-bands with their trading policies or free software market with their GPL stuff or just Linux. NP: Dave Douglas "Witness" (CD) -- Best regards, Peter Gannushkin e-mail: shkin@shkin.com URL: http://www.downtownmusic.net/