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To: Patricia Meaney who wrote (29468)	10/1/2002 11:18:43 AM
From: Sultan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

Here in Canada, when you buy blank recordable CDs, a fee is collected that is some how supposed to be channelled to musicians.. Kind of duty on copy right infringement.. Even though argument was made that more CDs are used to copying data then music.. So it does not feel like stealing any more.. Mind you, I don't have Kazaa or any other software on my PC because of imbedded spyware and also the results of download were less then satisfactory.. So preferred mode of custom CD is just borrowing CDs from friends and copying what you want.. FWIW..

To: Patricia Meaney who wrote (29468)	10/1/2002 1:54:37 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110655

>I don't believe in stealing music Touche but only to a point. I have no qualms about copying CDs from big selling established artists but when it comes to the young ones who are struggling to make it I have a big problem with it, but if you copy a CD for someone who regularly goes to concerts and that person will likely go see them live if they like the CD and they otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to the artist you're actually helping the artist. Am I over rationalizing? Probably, but I had a lot more scruples when the Nasdaq was over 5000!