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<blockquote data-quote="Corinth" data-source="post: 107627" data-attributes="member: 497">Legality Itself Is IrrelevantThe law doesn't matter unless and until you get busted.&nbsp; Smoke pot, kill people, pirate MP3s and drive the wrong way on a one way street all you want: until you're busted, the laws on the books don't mean a damned thing.&nbsp; If you're sufficiently rich or connected, even that is just an inconvience most of the time.I use a Gnutilla client.&nbsp; I see the D&amp;D and D20 materials there, but I choose not to download them because I don't trust that they are worth the time and money required to acquire them and print them.&nbsp; At present, it's usually easier and cheaper to buy the books.This is not so for music.&nbsp; The RIAA enforces a hideous markup on CDs to the tune of being over 1000% the cost of production, and that is after accounting for the cost of labor (i.e. the artist's work).&nbsp; (Go watch the TLC episode of VH1's Behind The Music sometime and see for yourself how bad it is for both musicians and music lovers.)&nbsp; So I gladly and gleefully search for what I want to hear online.&nbsp; As my primary interest--anime soundtracks--are either prohibitively expensive or unavailable through normal channels, using a P2P network is the only viable option.&nbsp; Make it so that buying CDs is easier and cheaper than downloading them and burning tunes to disk, and I'll do that instead.&nbsp; Until then, if I buy CDs at all I buy them used.Oh, and I don't care if it's legal or not.&nbsp; Legality isn't morality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Corinth, post: 107627, member: 497"] [b]Legality Itself Is Irrelevant[/b] The law doesn't matter unless and until you get busted. Smoke pot, kill people, pirate MP3s and drive the wrong way on a one way street all you want: until you're busted, the laws on the books don't mean a damned thing. If you're sufficiently rich or connected, even that is just an inconvience most of the time. I use a Gnutilla client. I see the D&D and D20 materials there, but I choose not to download them because I don't trust that they are worth the time and money required to acquire them and print them. At present, it's usually easier and cheaper to buy the books. This is not so for music. The RIAA enforces a hideous markup on CDs to the tune of being over 1000% the cost of production, and that is after accounting for the cost of labor (i.e. the artist's work). (Go watch the TLC episode of VH1's [i]Behind The Music[/i] sometime and see for yourself how bad it is for both musicians and music lovers.) So I gladly and gleefully search for what I want to hear online. As my primary interest--anime soundtracks--are either prohibitively expensive or unavailable through normal channels, using a P2P network is the only viable option. Make it so that buying CDs is easier and cheaper than downloading them and burning tunes to disk, and I'll do that instead. Until then, if I buy CDs at all I buy them used. Oh, and I don't care if it's legal or not. Legality isn't morality. [/QUOTE]

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