Mike,

if you buy a book and lend it to a friend... no problem. If you buy a book and reprint it for 1 million people and become an 'important person' with 3 million hits and there is advertising on every single page for which someone gets paid, it is a problem.

The math is the thing. lending to a friend, no problem. Sharing to anyone else in the world, problem. Make sense?

Playing hotel california in your living room for friends... no problem. humming it in the kitchen, no problem. Playing it in a bar for money, bar pays the fee.

reproducing it and putting it on the internet for millions of people to enjoy and benefit from without paying 15.00 fee, problem. 15 bucks to entertain the world legally seems like a small price, right?

Is 15.00 too much to be in accord with the laws and with your favorite songwriters and bands?

btw, CCM has the right like any citizen or group to report when folks are breaking the law... they do it for a fee which is paid by artists to protect the rights of the artist.