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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
If we include music, there a 4 kinds. Those mentioned and those who download music to check if it is something they want to buy.
Personally I download absolute sh*itloads of music, simply because it is by far the most convenient way for me to check out potential new purchases. The few music stores which exist around where I live are utter crap, carrying almost exclusively whatever garbage that's likely to sell right now. Hence my only options are generally to buy things blind or download them first, which is an easy choice to make. Because I have the option to easily sample pirated music first, I would estimate that I buy at least 40-50% more music than I otherwise would have done.
Admittedly I'm likely not the usual kind of pirate, in that I'm old enough to want to own my music on physical CDs and LPs, which means I basically buy everything I like sufficiently. The remainder I delete, since don't like it enough to listen to it anyway. I don't own an MP3 player anyway (ok, my PRS-950 can play music, but it never will), so the files would just add to the clutter on my hard drive.
I'm sure the music business would like to see me in jail for this heinous crime, but quite frankly I have a hard time feeling bad about it.
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It never ceases to amaze me how the something for nothing crowd can manufacture reasons to justify their desire to steal.
In Pre- Internet days people bought their music based purely on recommendations and what they heard on the radio and from friends. Oddly enough , they bought and enjoyed more music than they do now.
Why don't you just bluntly say that you like to get something for nothing and stop trying to pretty things up with nonsense like " I'm actually doing musicians a favor by downloading from pirate sites? " Serriously, nobody believes you, nor do they care whether you feel bad or not.