Marque, no intention to offend was meant. Clearly there are SOME totally innocent people, and sandoppe is another besides you. But I bet you at least know people who don't see sharing their music as wrong. The answer to Cyhiraeth is that, in some countries, they tried to get tax put on blank cassettes - the tax revenues to go, of course, to the recording biz. Mason raises an interesting point - what about fan art? There was a big contest recently at Animotions to design a comic book cover, and there were that many Supermans, X-Mens, Wonder Womans, etc, complete with title lettering and even comic company logos. I presume that DC et al have no interest in suing either Animotions or the individual artists out of existence, but could they if they wanted to? Are Poser Superman pictures properly permissible, or are they legally liable and only surviving because DC can't be bothered to hunt them down?