[QUOTE] From the advertising, and also if people wanted to download more/faster they had to pay for that privilege.[/QUOTE] So their customers weren't getting something for nothing. [QUOTE] Another excuse given. There was "we only want one song, not the whole album", and you can do that via legitimate download services There was "we want to audit the music" and you can do that too, iTunes allows you to play 60 seconds of a track The price argument does not stack up, when CDs first came out they we over NZ, now I buy CDs for less than NZ, some as low as NZ and if we put inflation into the mix we are paying about 1/10th what we used to pay or less. As one excuse runs out, another takes its place.[/QUOTE] Sure, thats the beneficial effect of the music recording industry adapting. Old people like you with a stereo buy CDs now and then, but its no longer the norm. But the article wasn't about music, most bit torrent traffic is for tv programs which have been captured off free to air tv.