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Originally Posted by setanta

You do realise how many albums these smaller bands have to sell before breaking even don't you? Thousands man. They wont even bother now that people are stealing off them for nothing. Again, I've mentioned this before and I have friends who work in sound recording. Its still expensive and time consuming and you're clutching at straws here anyway. This is theft, plain and simple. Anyway, I'm done here.

I am clutching at straws? Do you even know what straws I am clutching at? My point is and always was that illegal downloading has provided the industry with both positives and negatives. It is theft. Bravo. Give yourself a nice, big pat on the back. I never denied it was theft.

But artists both big and small are not going to stop making music because of it. Fact.