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1) Piracy has increased? Hey guess what? Music sales have increased recently as well.
2) There is a huge difference between someone who won't buy a product anyway and downloads it and someone who will and chooses to download it. This isn't like taking a car - a physical product one person won't be able to use if stolen.
3) The profits coming into the music industry in the 1990s were considered a "bubble" along with the economy and are in no way the standard by which to measure all future sales against.
4) Forget about fair and not fair. It was not fair that when the industry switched to CDs from tapes, prices went up, but hey whatever. How about how dirty the industry is already? Record producers are not saints.
For the PC, my friends use shareaza.com. For the Mac, acquisition and poisoned are great programs.
-Rudey
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