Do you think music downloading from a Kazaa or Morpheus site is stealing?
I never said that. I don’t think that’s necessarily right, but all digital music isn’t bad. If you buy a CD and want to put your favorite songs on one CD, you should be able to do that. The Hollings bill wants to redefine fair use. But I have never advocated stealing music. But if I download music from Kazaa, am I in violation of the law? Not all (downloading) is illegal. Wouldn’t it be great if you could go to a service and say, “Here’s my 100 CDs, and I want to listen to them in mixed format anywhere. Now, teach me about new music in streaming format, and if I like it, I can click and buy in a radio format.” There are other ways of doing it, but nobody wants to go and listen. Last weekend, I was going on a trip and went to two stores looking for CDs. I couldn’t find them, so I went to the Web, looking a legal way to download, but it wasn’t there. I didn’t do it personally, but a friend loaned me a copy–and then I lost the CD anyway. That was the only way I could get the song. But I
