Urm...I download music and feel absolutely no remorse. Theft? In Spain, the SGAE (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, in English "General Society of Authors and Editors") has a tax in every blank CD you buy, so prices are 30% up: this tax goes to the authors that sell more CDs, so when I buy a blank CD, I am paying the assholes in the Spanish crap-music panorama. More? They also want to tax hard drives and even DSL connections. It's damn abuse against the consumer, because it presumes that every CD bought will be used to hurt their industry. I thought people had to be prooven guilty and supposed innocent, but this time they just asume we are guilty. I didn't use to download that much, but ever since SGAE has got so greedy, I have decided I will play their game: I won't buy any CD that is related to them. What does that mean? It means I wont even buy a blank CD, instead of purchasing CDs here, whenever I go to Andorra I get a massive quantity that may last until my next trip there (this means, like 200 good quality blank CDs at 1/4 of the price I get them in Spain thanks to the fact it's tax free). Screw SGAE, they are a damn mafia.

Also, whenever I buy a CD, considering my style of music, I don't need to look in the shops. I just need to go to the musician and ask him for a CD. Yay for underground songwriter music. There's also music I can find in stores, maybe I can buy it, jsut because I feel a lot of respect for the author. For example, I do buy my favourite singer CDs (Luis Eduardo Aute) even if his CD company is tied to the mafia, but it's one of the exceptions. I also know Aute personally andf it feels kind of bad to download his music.