I almost hesitate to bring this up because because it might add to the arguments of people who feel burning entire CDs is OK. After all, Steve is clearly right that burning an entire CD for another person is against copyright law and furthermore is exactly the type of behavior that's intended to be regulated; no amount of "loosening" the law will change that nor should it. But *strictly* (ie legally) speaking burning an entire CD is not theft for the following reasons: (1) With one exception, copyright law is civil while theft falls under criminal law. Any copyright violation is statutorily not theft but open to civil remedies. The one exception is criminal copyright infringement which requires a certain minimum (I think it's currently $2500) but that is also not theft. (2) Copyright is federal law while theft is state law so there's no overlap. Whether unauthorized burning is morally stealing, of course, is a different question. Lang