Thug wrote:
When people put stuff for sale on ebay, people from Finland can buy it, and Boris and Dieter are left without their money. Therefore, it's not okay to sell copies on the net, but maybe it's okay to buy, sometimes.
No, I meant buying illegal copies in the internet.
I'll state my personal position again, with a bit more detail: I make enough money that I can afford to buy any new-release item by the artists that I like, and I do so. The artists I really like I often buy stuff second hand or bootlegged because there is simply *no other way* to get that material. I'll happily take a copy from somebody or download off the net some obscure remix of a track because I can't find it elsewhere.
I agree with you completely. If the material is available in some original way, then it's not okay to buy it in an illegal version. There exists a large industry making these illegal copies, and they of course cause the legal copies to be more expensive. Of course the record companies are very greedy, and don't really care about the fans' needs, with regard to record availability and prices, but that's another issue. -- Jussi Salmi http://staff.cs.utu.fi/~jussalmi/