It's more about civil liberties in my book Dodge. I don't d/load music illegally on the whole, I'm a musician (of sorts) myself after all.

It is more that they are threatening to introduce legislation that will enable them to cut people off from the internet if they think they have been involved in illegal d/loading - they won't need evidence, a trial or anything.

I do many legal d/loads - of music from the musicians round here for example. What if they were to interpret my d/load activity as piracy? Me and my family would be cut off without any recourse to law.

Ah pull the cork out your arse. How's it any different to buying second hand or remainder music as far as money getting back to the artist?

I buy cds and records but I can't afford to buy everything I want. I still buy as many as I did before I had access to the internet so, sorry, where's the harm? I'm not downloading INSTEAD of buying. If I didn't do it I wouldn't have it, and in many cases I wouldn't hear the artist and wouldn't subsequently buy their records. Most stuff I download is new to me and generally impossible to buy anyway, but frankly if I spent all day downloading Mariah Carey, The Killers and Nirvana illegally, so fucking what?

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