using a ******** means you are stealing $10 from somebody/some company. While downloading music is copyright infringement. When you download a song illegally, someone doesn't go to the artist, and say "someone stole your song pay us $1", if that happened it would be stealing.
The point im trying to make is that stealing music doesnt directly harm the artist unless you are like "if I cant steal this I'm going to buy it", and it surely doesnt put the artist in a worse spot then they were in.
Using a pinline hurts the company/person and leaves them in a worse spot
"Under current copyright legislation, downloading music for free is definitely theft under letter of the law"
under the current definition of theft, downloading music is not theft
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