That's not what I am saying at all. If you noticed, I quite frankly said that literally stealing a CD from a store is stealing the artwork because it is stealing property. The equivalent of telling a doctor to give you free medical care for a year isn't peer-to-peer, it's telling the artist to paint art for that individual for free for a year.

Artists get money from selling their work; the actual work. As an example; the louvre may own the Mona Lisa; but as I am sure you are aware, it's image is plastered everywhere, and is being shared all across the internet. It pisses me off when 'artists' get all emotional when they see such things happening. I don't even consider them true artists, as they really don't care about the art but just the money. I may consider myself an artist, yet I could care less if someone shares my music, or my graphics and image design. If anything, I would thank them for spreading my name around and getting people to know my stuff.

It might be easier for me to say it since art isn't nor won't be my primary source of income. But if someone wants me to play for them at a party, or if they want perhaps for me to record a CD for them or design for them some graphics for them to use for their website, I might ask for some kind of payment in return if I don't know them. But see, there's a difference between sharing and stealing; one that I don't think you see.