Mick: You're right my post was shallow and stated the obvious I believe artist should be protected but I don't have a solution for the problem and I'm not certain anyone else does after reading this thread. Perhaps there isn't a solution that will work for everyone. So maybe my post didn't add to the conversation but what did the posts add to the conversation where people are telling each other to fuck off?
Is it possible to make CDs where they can't be ripped on to computers? How do you keep people from downloading tunes gratis. (By the way, I take no umbrage at your comment as I state above you're absolutely right.) Do we start covert surveilence on computers to see if people are illegally down loading music? Mary in the post above makes a point. My Dell does the same thing If I put a CD in , It begins ripping it to the computer Thuis issue doesn't only affect musicians If you can "Rip" Music this easy, you can printout online books etc. Neil