the whole selling a second hand cd vs file-sharing argument does carry some weight.
fact is, the act of sharing a file or an album does not hurt an artist any more than selling a cd second hand. in both cases, the artist loses a sale and doesn't make a red cent. yet sharing a file is illegal, and selling a cd second hand is not. granted, the potential for wide-scale loss is clearly far greater in the case of file sharing, but as far as single individual acts go, there's no more harm to an artist in one or the other.
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