Ok...I get her drift, but let's just say that I'm not a teenager stealing the latest greatest Lady Gaga album. Let's say that I've been buying music legally for 40 some odd years. For example in 1969 I bought the first Led Zeppelin album and continued and eventually bought them all. When I became old enough to drive...my car had an 8-track tape player, to listen to my Led Zeppelin albums I had to buy every single one of them again...then I got a new car and it had a cassette player in it...again I buy all the Led Zeppelin albums once again...in a few years CD's come out...they are digital and sound better so I buy them all again...at what point do I own the music I've bought? If I download mp3 versions of all my Led Zeppelin songs am I stealing or are the recording companies stealing from me every time they change the media I listen to? There are ethical and moral values to look at here, but both sides need to look at their participation.
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Ok...I get her drift, but let's just say that I'm not a teenager stealing the latest greatest Lady Gaga album. Let's say that I've been buying music legally for 40 some odd years. For example in 1969 I bought the first Led Zeppelin album and continued and eventually bought them all. When I became old enough to drive...my car had an 8-track tape player, to listen to my Led Zeppelin albums I had to buy every single one of them again...then I got a new car and it had a cassette player in it...again I buy all the Led Zeppelin albums once again...in a few years CD's come out...they are digital and sound better so I buy them all again...at what point do I own the music I've bought? If I download mp3 versions of all my Led Zeppelin songs am I stealing or are the recording companies stealing from me every time they change the media I listen to? There are ethical and moral values to look at here, but both sides need to look at their participation.