[rwfromkansas]

I don't file share music, but I do occasionally download a warez program (it gets really annoying trying to get through all the dang porn pop-ups before you can actually download the game or software program though).

I am not going to pay 50 bucks for a program that is worth more like 10 when I can get it for free. If there is a CD that has a song I like, but there is only one song on it I like, I won't pay 13 bucks for an entire CD. It has never come to that, but I would go download an mp3 in the future if it does.

[Bella_Bru]

Many of the songs I have downloaded are either no longer in print or I already purchased on vinyl and then again on cassette.

I also have actually gone put and bought the CD of a group when I have dloaded a couple of songs and discovered that I liked them a lot.

[PropheticZero]

I am not going to pay 50 bucks for a program that is worth more like 10 when I can get it for free. If there is a CD that has a song I like, but there is only one song on it I like, I won't pay 13 bucks for an entire CD. It has never come to that, but I would go download an mp3 in the future if it does.

But you can't hop behind the counter at Mc. Donald's and grab a fry because you don't think you should have to buy a whole box when you just want one fry.

[PropheticZero]

Stealing is stealing no matter what fancy philosophy you want to blame it on, no offense. I do it too :) Its just that I don't try to candycoat by saying I'm an activist against immoral corporate execs over charging us. A lot of time and money goes into producing CD's and making computer programs, and to say its not stealing is more of a crime in my mind than doing the act itself. The attempts to relegate this to a victimless crime are incorrect at best.