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Buying a car doesn't automatically get you a free pass into a drive-in movie

I know what you mean by the copyright confusion: the laws are an international mess and courts around the world are trying to deal with the pressure from copyright cartels. The rules change almost weekly. p2p is so powerful at allowing peers to share with each other that the old distribution models are trying to control it any way they can (with pretty poor results).

Anyway, Peerless knows much more about finding good music.

Cheers