It's not the same. When you consume music for free, you're consuming a product without paying the person that put the largest amount of work into it. Laws asi

It's not the same. When you consume music for free, you're consuming a product without paying the person that put the largest amount of work into it. Laws aside, where's the ethics in that? In the music business there is certainly a fairness issue of middlemen taking a large cut, but Grooveshark is not solving that.