I just wanted to point out this sentence by Steggy:

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Most of these I wouldn't be able to go to the record store and find anymore.
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That's an interesting problem. Say I go to a record store looking for some obscure song. It's been out of print for ages, so no luck. I check out Amazon and other online retailers. Still no luck.

Then I log onto a filesharing network and find the exact song I want as an MP3 file. So I download it and I'm happy.

Now, this is illegal, because obviously someone obtained the song and put it up for download, and I got it without paying for it. But the fact remains that it wasn't available via traditional retail outlets.

But let's say I'm a good person and want to pay somebody for it. Who do I pay? How do I pay? How much should I pay?

(Y'know, in a digital world like ours, there's no excuse for ANYTHING going out of print.)

Discuss?