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Originally Posted by setanta

But stealing is stealing really; I don't think there's degrees involved with it.

If you want to think stealing all the cash and jewelery from a pensioner living alone and stealing a rock from Richard Branson's prized chest of rocks is the same thing, without degrees, because of some bollocks pseudo moral 'stealing is stealing' mentality then sure, shoot for the stars.

Originally Posted by setanta

Yes, it's nice to see new music out there on the internet but for every new discovery people make, do you think they'll go out and buy their cd or attend their gigs? I'm not so sure.

I am. Record sales may be down, but live gig attendances went through the roof this decade. That's a fact.

For every negative of illegal downloading there is a lot of positives. When record prices are nosediving in years to come, be sure to send us hooligans a letter of thanks!

File sharing is driving a knife right through the corporate underbelly of the music industry. Fucking celebrate.