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Originally Posted by Stu

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.


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!

The live gigs are by and large for the bands that people like Branson and the like produce and yes, stealing is stealing. I find it highly unlikely that people who download relatively unknown bands for free will suddenly have a mad desire to find an original copy and buy it or travel over to Finland or Russia or wherever to see them perform live. And the stealing is stealing is in reference to your assertions involving the music business, not with regard to all forms of stealing.