andrel wrote:
> Do you know a legal way to just listen other than buying a CD?

Most places selling CDs will have 30-second samples. They sound a lot like 
Yes, but without (afaict) most of the really innovative musical stuff. I.e., 
same instruments, much less talent. :-)

> Until they do, we have to treat anything there as illegal uploads.

You may prefer to do that, but in the USA, all the copyright holder has to 
do is send a letter saying "that's mine and I don't want you to share it" 
and down it comes. Since it has become trivially easy here for a 
right-holder to suppress sharing of anything, regardless of whether such 
suppression is legal or not, I personally don't worry too much if I go to a 
site like youtube and watch something to see if I want to buy it.

Of course, if I go to something like The Pirate Bay and find movies that are 
sitting on the shelf of the video rental place right now, I'm pretty sure 
they shouldn't be there. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
   see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.

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