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The main thing is I download things which I would never have paid for in the first place. If something is good enough that I would buy it were that the only option, then I buy it. The rest of things - things that if there were no other way to obtain it I would say "oh well" and live without ever having it - I probably download.
Being a musician I can tell you that I have absolutely no problem downloading music for 2 main reasons. The first is that, like I said, if I don't pay for it, it's 99% unlikely that I wouldn't have even if that were the only way to get it. The second is that, with the exception of major acts such as Metallica and Madonna who can make record deals where they actually make a fair share of CD sales, most artists make little to nothing from CD sales. Almost all the money an artist actually sees comes from concerts and merchandise. So, if I really want to support an artists, I'll see them live. Thankfully more and more artists are speaking out against the RIAA and those are the artists that I hope will help pioneer a reasonable compromise.
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"Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling
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