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...that otherwise honest folks blithely steal music? For me, it started with Napster. I was desperate to hear an old Loudon Wainwright III tune that hadn't yet been rereleased on CD. I found it one day online--someone had converted the entire record into MP3s and kindly uploaded the songs. I downloaded the tune and then helped myself to a rare Duane Allman rendition of Please Be with Me. I had begun my descent into hell, or wherever it is that music pilferers go at the Final Download. I'd have been thrilled to pay for them, I rationalized...
...recent e-mail survey, TIME asked downloaders why they steal online. Each had a similarly convoluted rationale. One said he wasn't stealing but was "simply borrowing from friends I don't know all over the world." Many resented buying an album when all they wanted was one song. One raged against the Man, saying it's "payback time" against venal record companies. Only a few owned up to what I suspect is the real reason: it's virtually impossible to get caught. While few of these people would, for example, help themselves to books or stereos if they could...
...With Harvard trailing 3-2, junior leadoff hitter Bryan Hale had begun the fifth with a hard hit to first base and out-raced Crusader pitcher Andrew Sweeny to the bag for an infield single. Hale then used the same speed to steal second...
Among the worst breakdowns was when a Penn runner was allowed to steal home...
...those seven back then was Gephardt, whose biggest liability now is the perception he's the candidate of Christmas Past. So it was probably a good move for him to steal a beat as the candidate of new ideas. Now he has to defend them. The centerpiece of his proposal is a requirement for all employers to provide health insurance for their workers - with the government reimbursing 60% of their costs by way of a tax credit. Gephardt says the plan doubles as an economic stimulus--and a far more effective one than the Bush tax cut it would replace...