"Whether you agree with the laws or not, file sharing stuff you don't have a right to have a copy of is, in fact, illegal." But, in fact, you can and often do

"Whether you agree with the laws or not, file sharing stuff you don't have a right to have a copy of is, in fact, illegal." But, in fact, you can and often do have that right. Under the practice of fair use making personal copies is legal in most parts of the world, including countries where bits are heavily considered an intellectual(ly challenged) property. I can legally make a copy of an album from my friend and I can legally own that copy. The MAFIAA would like you to think that any kind of file sharing is illegal but non-commercial peer-to-peer file sharing is a hugely debatable issue. If it's okay to use the sneakernet to pop at your friend's to make a copy but not okay over the internet, what's the difference besides a technicality? The MAFIAA do have some sort of track record in winning a number of copyright lawsuits but it seems to me that mostly it's because they have shitloads of money to fight with and, conversely, individual citizens don't.