Originally Posted by Botnst

Let's say MikeMover is in a band that makes money off of recording sales. let's say instead of buying his music we download it off the Internet. Does our downloading take money out of Mike's pocket? Is that what we want to do, steal from Mike?

Or is just okay to steal from folks that we don't know? In which case, where do you live? I need a new sound system and I feel like they charge too much at Best Buy so I'm just going to steal yours.