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Which side am I on? I favor paying less for less popular tracks and more for popular tracks, but that's my opinion.

Then again, for out-of-print tracks (which you can't buy anywhere) I don't think there should be any penalty for sharing. If you are a record company and want to get paid for the track, then sell it! If you take it out of print it should go into the public domain and be sharable.

In my personal collection I have hundreds of tracks that I've recorded off of my LP collection because they have been out-of-print, sometimes for decades. My LPs are in good to excellent condition and I can make excellent WAV and MP3 files from them. I've done the same with LPs I inherited from my parents. The real horror would be for some of those old recordings to be lost forever. That would be a crime, not sharing them.

My children have iPods, and use iTunes, so it is interesting to get their reactions and those of their friends. Basically, they don't care. If they can't buy it through itunes (yes, they buy their music whenever possible), they will get it some other way, and probably not a way Universal would want them to get it.

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