[johnny]

I download music.

I don't see a problem with it, considering that most of the stuff I listen to is old and no one is making real money off it anymore. Besides, the way I figure it is, if downloading music is stealing because the "rightful producer" of that product isn't getting paid, so is buying CDs second-hand from stores, or buying vinyl records or cassette tapes. In fact, by the logic of the anti-piracy people, all secondhand music store owners should be arrested under piracy laws for making money off music while the artists don't.

:/

Still, that being said, I do have a CD or vinyl version of every album I have on my music player at this moment.

As I said, I like having physical representations of things. I don't like stuff just... floating around on my computer, able to be lost at the first hard drive crash.

Also, I'm slightly less forgiving about downloading movies. The secondhand loophole still remains, but for movies it really does put a huge dent in the profits. Movies usually have to pay for a lot of peoples' salaries, not just a band or a producer's.

And downloading books is just evil without buying them afterward! D<

Authors get paid very little per book as is. Downloading books is just like.. stealing from them. Also, this is another reason why I hate e-readers: it makes book-downloading so much easier for people to do, thus putting a huge gash in the publishing business.