Numerous record labels quickly filed suits claiming Napster file sharing violates the copyright laws of their intellectual property. ... In an attempt to further expand their case, a press release by the RIAA declared that the number of burned CD's worldwide is proximate to the number of CD's sold through retail on the condition that just half of the blank discs sold in 2001 were used to copy music (qtd. in Boucher). Having read this information, "you"d have to assume... that if it weren't for personally copied music, CD sales would be double, and with the copying they should h...

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