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Originally Posted by suicider
It's not a grey area, it's plain and simple copyright infringement.
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While i would agree with you on a moral-side of the matter, and i'm all for "the label made 'X' copies? They're fine with 'X' guys owning it", i've come to understand that it's not that simple, or better... There's no real harm: Let's just imagine that a label makes 800 copies of an album, they all get sold, then for a reason or the other the label closes business and the copyright holder doesn't care enough to issue a reprint. I'd like to ask, where would the damage be in such a situation? After all they took all the money they wanted, and since there's no reprint or factory-sealed copies available, no real stealing would happen. Sure, you're not doing a very right thing... But again, even selling music may not be considered entirely "right", after all anyone can grab an instrument and give it a try, music is everyone's property.