Do you download without paying?

[El Pinko]

Do you download without paying?

[lpbk2713]

1. Other

[htuttle]

2. "On advice of counsel, I respectfully assert my Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination,"

[Cresent City Kid]

5. I second the fifth

[MeDeMax]

3. I don't download music/movies period

I don't have time or inclination to enjoy the music I already own.

[JI7]

4. isn't that part of the reason you download ?

so you don't have to pay for it?

[El Pinko]

9. I sometimes pay to download from iTunes...

...it's more convenient than going to a store and buying a CD with only one song I like.

[calmblueocean]

6. I do both.

I have Netflix, and I've bought music from iTunes and other online music stores, but I also download. I d/l "The Colbert Report" because it's easier than watching it when it's on, and since I pay for cable anyway, I don't feel guilty about it. My iPod does have a lot of pirated music on it, but mostly from artists that I support when I can, or new artists I'm not sure about yet.

[petronius]

7. Other: I don't download music because I don't really care about music,

and I pay for movies through netflix because I don't really know how to download them for free (and don't have the inclination to figure out how).

That said, all the high-flying moral arguments in favor of file-sharing are bullshit - it's clearly a form of theft, and people who do it can go ahead and do it for all I care, but they ought to spine-up and own the deed...

[Ghost in the Machine]

8. Other....

Software... lots and lots of software!

Why buy what you can hack... errr, I mean... ummmm.... well shit...


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[AlCzervik]

10. did want to ask us if we cheat on our taxes as well?

[The Straight Story]

11. I have in the past but only for cd's and such I already paid for and lost

Shit happens when you move.

[Firespirit]

12. It depends.

If it is an old song, a classic rock track for instance, I download it. The artist has already cashed in long ago, and I do have some pocketbook issues. I view it in the same light as recording the song off the radio.

If it's a new release, I go to iTunes for it.

[newmajority]

13. Only bootleg CD's and DVDs'.

Mostly live shows and the occasional studio outtakes bootleg, none of them being commercially available. And should the same material be commercially available at a later date, I would probably buy it any way, because odds are that it's going to look or sound better than the boot version.

I do not download anything that I can buy in a retail store. But I have occasionally downloaded "leaked" commercial albums which are not YET available, just so I can hear it before I buy it.