So your last statement has put a very large chink in my copyright point of view. I have always believed that if you build something that was a commercial product of someone else. It would be OK if you did this for your own personal use.
Now you bring up Music download. When hundreds of thousands of people download a single song for their personal use... The RIAA pulls in the feds and sends kids to jail for it.

Its all stealing. What's your threshold of pain for getting caught?
Do I think kids should be fined for downloading music? not really. Most of the down-loaders of music are not going to buy the music anyway. but since they have it downloaded, they or a friend might just buy something later on.

letterbox beach front. sounds like a condo 20 miles long and 100 stories tall. inland people see a wall and condo people all have a letterbox view through a portal.