Music Downloading

To be honest, the topic of downloading music illegally makes me nervous. I have countless CD's that I made to give a friend and I never knew it was illegal. Reading the consequences and stories about people who have been fined thousands of dollars really makes me contemplate whether or not I should call up old friends from a few years back to take back the CD I made to burn it, but that would just be inconvenient. I think the charges made against Jammie Thomas was a bit extreme, nearly 10,000 dollars a song? No song is worth that. Now that I am aware of these stories and the law regarding music downloads I can notify other people that do not know. People just need to know and it won't be a huge problem anymore.