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Ok. I'll admit that piracy is wrong. But I think there are defiantly some gray areas. There is a lot of music. A LOT. When you look at how many genres there are, and how long music has been around, its going to be hard not to copy someone else a little. Many musicians listen to a lot of older groups to get ideas and new things, and try to create their own sound off of that. The musicians they listened to did the same thing. In a roundabout way you could almost say that someone like Dr. Dre is ripping off of Bach. Now I know that idea is ludacris, but there could be truth to it. I think when it comes to piracy stuff, we just have to look at what the artist did - is it a remix? is it a new play on an old idea? is this guy a total hack and completely ripping off someone else? I hear songs on the radio today that have an exact same pattern and background as a song from the 70's, but they don't get hit for piracy at all. As consumers, we just need to be aware of what we are listening to.