I'm open-minded, but when I put my admin hat on, I have to make objective decisions that are in the best interests of the site, regardless of whether those decisions may upset a few people.
Like I said, if we're lax on people linking to copyrighted recordings/videos, what's to stop them linking to pirated software as well? Outside of possible monetary issues, I find it impossible to differentiate between these two acts.
Anyway, like Nikolas showed us, it's perfectly possible to find legal recordings on YouTube, for one. Also check out
Classic Cat - the free classical mp3 directory (a site I had previously forgotten about, and one that is going to go back into my bookmarks). This too:
CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES - CLASSICAL MUSIC I think I'll add these into the opening post as suggested resources.