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Introduction: This commandment has not been yet used on the forum according to the search, so this is a new discussion on the subject. The main purpose is to help to determine for myself is it possible to listen to GOA trance music while living in a poor country regarding material values for it's inhabitants. I grew up in a so called "3d world" country, which is Ukraine, an Eastern Europe, a post-Soviet Union country. My main concern is whether it is possible to get enjoyment from the GOA trance music for the person, no matter where he lives but having a very minimum amount of what is called as "funds". I've provided my growing/living location as an example where a lot of individuals might appear under circumstances, when they could not absolutely afford buying music so that it would feed their musical hunger. Let's take a person who begun following the commandments absolutely, of the really the top priority. For such a person, according to another well known saying, he would rather "cut off his ears but being able to enter the Divine Kingdom being a deaf instead of dead" and avoid the temptation. Yes, "cutting off the ears" in one of the solutions. Another solution is to create your own music using the very limited hardware or listen to free music only which is available at the person's living location. Question: Another solution is to listen to the so called DJ sets and radio translations. And this is what I would like to discuss here. I've seen there are people here who call themselves as "christians" and other similar-minded, so this discussion might be of the general benefit. The situation appeared to be extremely difficult to solve! The main culprits here are the authors of the music who "agree to play labels game" and often enough create the same labels and the label managers themselves. The fact that there are many of both producers and labels owners here was one of another reason for creation of this topic here. One thing is certain here is that the commandment "You shall not steal" applies to the real thing, not what is say only written. For example, an author never considered this issue at all and issues an album. On the CD it appeared to be written: "..ALL RIGHTS OF THE MANUFACTURER AND OF THE OWNER OF THE RECORDED WORK RESERVED. UNAUTHORIZED PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, BROADCASTING AND COPYING OF THIS RECORD PROHIBITED." (Suntrip Records). These are the words, but what lies behind the exact will of the author and the label? Would they both mind of someone who could not really afford buying the album would be listening to a "pirated mp3"? Because if the both music author and label owners in their "hearts" would normally accept the situation of giving the music to the materially poor people, it might not likely be the breaking of the commandment. But who knows what lies inside of their "hearts"? I have created this thread in order to try to enlighten this mystery by listening to their official positions by a luck. Another question is DJ mixes and radio broadcasts. It appeared to be that in my country (Ukraine) even now a lot of music which is being broadcasting live is using the "illegally downloaded" media! For example, the latest Shpongle's album presentation several months ago was exactly this case! At the same time, sometimes the authors themselves create music sets and give voice interviews for the same radio station, like it was in case with Goasia's "Dancing With The Blue Spirit" album and RA's mixset which was made just for the "party" which happened several days ago. But, in the case when either a DJ mix is distributed over the internet or it is a radio broadcast from the "licensed media", it most most most of the cases, it is absolutely "not authorized". And as I have already noted, there might be a real situation of the music authors and label owners wish: they might be absolutely tolerant for the situation where their music is included into a dj mix which is recorded from the purchased media or broadcasting on a radio station in a "3d world" country. Thus it might not be breaking of the commandment. But as it is nowhere (maybe almost) said about what lies exactly behind the "copyright" law, at least absolutely nothing is said on both authors and labels web sites, I decided to try to clarify this question which worries me for such a long time already on this forum. Thanks for the attention!