Is using Kazaa for downloading music illegal?

[Bjorktribe]

You don't walk into a music store and walk out with a CD w/out paying, right? So you shouldn't be downloading it.

It still falls in the hands of whoever is distributing it though. Someone shelling out copies of their shared folder is just as guilty as that guy who is always outside of the concert hall selling bootleg tapes.

And besides (still) being overpriced, who doesn't like unwrapping their new CD and enjoying all the goodies inside? Or even being able to say 'I own this'?

Also, it's hurting the recording industries growth. If people wouldn't download Tens of thousands of dollars a day, Maybe, just maybe the record industry would say 'OK, We can afford not to charge people ten times the manufacturing cost for these disks.'

Oh well. You cant shut down the real profiters (Kazaa and others). They simply provide the transportation.