“Congratulations, your generation is the first generation in history to rebel by unsticking it to the man and instead sticking it to the weirdo freak musicians!”

This is an extremely well-written piece that discusses the ideas surrounding the illegal downloading of music.  This might change the way you view things, please take 15 minutes to read it: http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/letter-to-emily-white-at-npr-all-songs-considered/