> All of whom lose money when someone decides it's okay to steal a copy. No. We could take a snapshot of some artist's bank account, ask her not to make or re

> All of whom lose money when someone decides it's okay to steal a copy. No. We could take a snapshot of some artist's bank account, ask her not to make or receive any payments for a short periods of while. During that while, I run a loop that downloads or makes a few million copies of some song or movie or whatever. Then we peek at her account again and look, the number is exactly as before. And again we have peace of mind in knowing that merely shuffling bits and bytes around a hard drive or even across a network link has no bearing on what happens in someone else's bank account.