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The music industry has already deterred me by producing no new music I want to steal. Or buy.

True. The only things I have downloaded are things that nobody would buy or even put on the radio any more. The few things I have downloaded have been out of print for years and will certainly never come back. If they hadn't been available for download and HAD been available in stores I would never actually pay $15 for them.

I pretty much listened to them once or twice for the reminiscing effect and then never played them again. Its basically the same effect as choosing which old song to hear on the radio. How much money are they actually losing by me downloading Johnny Horton's "Sink the Bismarck" to listen to one time?

None. But they are willing to jack me around, sue me, or destroy my computer. Sure does not make me want to sympathize with them.

Its obvious that they are idiots. They are so wedded to the $15.00 CD business model and can't understand why their sales are going down. They were flabbergasted by the success of Apple's iTunes project. They fought VHS tapes, they fought recordable cassettes, they worried about DAT, they worried about CD's at first, they were reluctant about going to DVD, they fight every new technology and seem absolutely clueless and incapable of responding to a new emerging market or business model or seeing any potential beyond what they are doing at the moment.

They've had to be dragged kicking and screaming into every new market by the technology people.