Okay, lets say you find some coins in the coin return on a pay phone, so you use them to pay for the call and get a freebee. who wouldn't, no big deal. Then lets say everybody found the way to get free calls and nobody paid. I guess in the end, the phone co. would just go out of business.
In PC magazine this month John Dvorak addresses the problem of outright theft of services of copyright material. He says basically, now that the cats out of the bag, you will never get it back in and the only way to stop it is to make the recording of music on the latest multi-layered DVD's so they are converted to massive 40GB formats of raw music, which would be too large to transfer or copy.
So much for the little guy trying to peddle his CD to the masses.