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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 1408529" data-attributes="member: 5202">In the example I gave I own the track.  How is that making sure they don't get their money.  They ALREADY got my money for the song when I bought the cd.  Hell there's some music I've bought on at least 3 seperate occasions and still have on casette.  Have I considered downloading a copy fom Kazaa and burning it? of course?  Have I?  No.  I still own the music and thus am allowed a copy of it tho, so I may eventually.  I'm one of those rare folks who actually WILL go out and buy the music eventually...once my ass gets out of the serious debt problem we have right now.  I LIKE album art and liner notes.  I PREFER the better sound quality that you can't get with an mp3.  Most of the time I don't even download official releases, I download things like bootleg live shows from artists like Prince who will most likely never release any of his old live material as he (a few years ago anyway) has talked about rerecording all his old WB material and specifically not cursing and such.  That whole he's a JW now thing.  Did the guy in the thread lose out on some money?  Most likely.  I feel bad for him I honestly do.  I don't think that every copy he finds on someone's drive would have been someone who would have actually bought said book, but I think there is some lost revenue.  I'm done with this topic tho as I'm too broke to afford pretty much anything (even my rent or bills) so I'm not going to argue about if it's right or wrong to download things.Hagen</blockquote>

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