Downloading Music - am I really going to be Fined?

[Sir O]

when I said that the game company makes a huge chunk of money from rental outlets, I meant cause of the quantity of games they buy. It's better than making nothing, thousands of stores hundreds of games a year from each store that's a lot of sales.

But it still stands that they buy the game and then rent it out.

The movie companies don't mind cause they make a ton of money from the video stores, movie theaters, and then PPV. Then they sell off the movies to TV stations, so they are mint.

As long as they rent out the original copy, it's legal. It would only be illegal if they made unauthorized copies of the games, and rented those out to customers. The same logic applies to stores that sell used CD's. After you (or Blockbuster, or whomever) purchases the original, you're free to do whatever you want with the original copy. You're free to make as many copies as you want as well - only when duplicate copies are distributed (for profit or for free, it makes no difference) does it become illegal.