Originally Posted by ScottGem
You've been giving the correct information and you are really being naive if you think that downloading a song and burning it is NOT file sharing. File sharing involves two parts, the person who makes the file available and the person who download it. If you are downloading songs that are being sold in stores without paying for them, do you really think that's OK? Or did you not want to think about it because you were getitng free music? If you had recorded a song and were trying to sell it, but people were just giving it away to anyone who wanted it, wouldn't you be upset that you were losing money?
Unfortunately, you are not alone. There are loads of unwitting pirates out there that use all sorts of rationalizations to justify stealing music and other copyrighted works. Yes I said STEALING because that's what getting something without paying for it or without permission is. But all those rationalizations are just people trying to deny what they know down deep.
Try reading that link I put in the other thread. Try googling RIAA sues pirates and see what you get.
Now if you are an honest person, you will take every CD with a track that you have pirated and literally burn the CDs (as in melt them).