Simple point:
Artificially Inflated Materialism
When you enter this world, you start with nothing apart from that of the aspirations of your parents and what they do the aid you in your development. If you were to lead a life care free, you'd have no burden's of the need of money or the need of any material artifact other than the roof over your head and the bed in which you sleep. (Of course clothing is a necessity for the majority of social networking, although some people would invite you over even without the clothes.)
However in these troubled times (which as a tangent seem never to cease), we are force fed Materialism through Capitalists. Our society is no longer built on the basis of achieving a rank within some hierarchical topology in the sense of what 'work' you put in can shape your own destiny, through the Mass Media engines and Commercialisation we are now bound to a Topology that follows a simple rule pattern:
"[/i]If you can't keep up with the Jone's, at least get the model in front of the one they just got.[/i]"
It's obviously said it's a "Dog eat Dog world", where everyone is thinking of their own egotistical nature above that of everyone else and this is shown with the current cases of the music industry. Let me just get this straight for those of you out there, the music industry is really a bunch of firms that front the cash for artists to record songs. They then get rights to the distribution of that song through their various outlets, The money they make is through packaging, Advertising (even paying radio stations to play the song), the artists by this point too can still gain royalties but only if they've truly hawk-eyed the contract for legal loopholes. (Believe me, Such firms don't just shaft the public through the inflated costs of their recordings, but the artists to who they tend to think they own the 'Soul' of, which is probably why those artists under contracts lose their artistic inspiration because they become another 'souless corporate sellout'.)
There are hundreds of thousands of talented Singer/Songwriters out there (as well as entire bands) however due to a number of reasons (poor management, Lacking the seriousness of commitment and the fact that most bands now a days are 'Vat grown' for the pure purpose of sales.) they go little known in only the town's and cities in which they play. They are offered a pittance by public houses and clubs to play and the limited 'live' turnout can undermine their entire hopes, dreams an inspirations.
Simply if the argument that copying a music track is not supporting an artist, then support the artists by going out and going to their live gigs, support then entire live music industry by doing so (and for the most part such live music is rarely controlled by the large commercialised ganking machine that we currently refer to as the RIAA.)
There is one song I would openly copy, and I'm hoping the artist will not be offended, but should the RIAA ever find anything on me (which they probably wont for the most part because they deal with 'POP CRAP'.) I will sing it in the court room, I will sing it during trial and I would sing it in prison and it goes a little something like this:
"I know a song that gets on your nerves,
gets on your nerves,
gets on your nerves.
I know a song that gets on your nerves,
gets, gets, gets on your nerv-es."
(Rinse and repeat ad infinitum)
