I don't think it's wrong to illegally download music. I'm a poor student and cd prices are too high, especially in the UK. Record companies need to realise that we're not going to stop downloading just because they start suing, we're just going to get cleverer and sneakier. Downloading is not 'killing music' any more than home taping did in the 80s. I certainly don't buy any less cds/records just because I have the soulseek and an ipod - before I had the internet I taped things off my friends and the radio.

Artists usually make more money from touring than from cds anyway so I'd rather support them that way. I also tend not to download non-major label cds, I'm happy to support the bedroom-run companies and the way I see it, they need the money more than Sony do and the artists almost always get a better deal with, say, K than with a huge corporation.

Éloise, Slytherin.