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Totally. Which is why I don't consider it theft when I download a song using Gnutella. These leftists are so anti-property rights, unless their ox is being gored, they don't care.

Maybe if they'd let people pay to download one song, instead of forcing people to buy the whole album at $18, people would stop downloading stuff for free.

I have a huge collection of tv shows on my comp (since I don't get cable tv in my dorm room this year; they put in high speed internet to replace it and are in the bidding process to put it back in). I have looked online, but have not been able to buy these shows in video format. I don't consider this stealing to find a them on Kazaa or elsewhere and download them when the shows aren't even running on tv anymore in many cases.

I just wish I could find the Bob Newhart show online somewhere (the late 80's one). There is no company I find selling the shows and they are no longer aired in America anywhere. I remember that show from my young childhood, so that is more of a sentimental thing, but it was a very funny program.

As for my songs, I like being able to put together a collection of songs I like. The RIAA rips of artists in the end anyway, so I am not depriving them of much money by not buying one cd. I get tired of blowing 14 bucks on a CD that only has 1 song I want on it. And I often want the songs released to radio as singles, but I never can find these singles in the stores even when they are supposedly offered as ones. Often these mp3 copies have places where the copy messed up or something briefly, so they are not perfect and therefore, not a true copy of the original song. Because of this, I also do not consider it stealing. Especially since somebody else paid for it and voluntarily is letting me copy it (like I could copy a copy pages of a book they have or something).