It’s nearly impossible to find metal in stores (or anything past rap or generic rock), and if you do it’s $20 a CD. Who has that kind of money; who pays for these?

Really, it’s hard to even find movie soundtracks to popular films. I looked in several stores for the Resident Evil; Extinction soundtrack which probably wasn’t being sold anywhere because it actually had good music from such artists like Nightwish or Collide (an industrial rock band).

They only go after people for music downloads because of how greedy they are. Artists get like $1 a CD unless they are an indepedent label which they only get like $5 then. Yet both the industry and platimum (1 million) selling artists complain and wine like they don’t sell anything.

My advice; move to Europe and listen to actually good bands like Nightwish, Epica, After Forever, Leaves Eyes, Lacuna Coil, Indica, Within Temptation, Xandria, Delain, Tarja Turenen, and many more.
Also, for older music, Meatloaf, Def Leppard, Rolling Stones, and also more.
Screw this american label garbage. I doubt Nuclear Blast Records has ever thought of suing anybody, and I’m sure they’ve got loads of illegel downloads from there artists because they’re CD’s aren’t worldwide available, even when there supposed to be.

And really, don’t host sharing files, or use crappy websites and no one’s going to know. Or use a seperate computer.

I’m not saying downloading illegal music is right, but sometimes there isn’t a choice. God forbid we don’t want to listen to computer created paris hilton songs and rather listen to Annette Olzon, a woman who can actually sing (and now Nightwish’s new singer since early 2007).

Even Amazon wants to rip me off for Xandria’s greatest hits, $40 freakin bucks. FOr the money the artists get, this CD should be no more than $10 and should be available in all stores in the place of Qwen Stefani’s crappy new album.

Enough said. America isn’t so great anyway; the south is way better though. At least a great female singer like Carrie Underwood came from there, or In This Moment did from California. Some hope is left, but really, go to Europe; the weather isn’t any worse than America (all weather sucks), and people aren’t so stupid. And the music isn’t so generic either.
Ha Ha…I hope I get a reply from someone else American (I am too but I’m going to be gone as soon as I can) who is annoyed by this comment.

Border searches
Newspaper reports indicate that the proposed agreement would empower security officials at airports and other international borders to conduct random searches of laptops, MP3 players, and cellular phones for illegally downloaded or “ripped” music and movies. Travelers with infringing content would be subject to a fine and may have their devices confiscated or destroyed.[2][5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th_G8_summit

Intellectual property rights controversy

See more: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement[4]

A leaked document[5] details provisions of a proposed plurilateral trade agreement that would impose strict enforcement of intellectual property rights related to Internet activity and trade in information-based goods. If adopted, a treaty of this form would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime imposing new cooperation requirements upon ISPs, including perfunctory disclosure of customer information, as well as measures restricting the use of online privacy tools. The proposal also specifies a plan to encourage developing nations to accept the legal regime. Talking points from the European Commission, the Office of the United States Trade Representative, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and others have published selected passages ostensibly from this document; refer to http://ipjustice.org/wp/campaigns/acta/ for useful links.

How’s that for losing your rights if it came true.

Paranoia helps no one. Divide and conquer has always been the way of the state.

or – bored and should find a new movie to download

Make your OWN music and plan your OWN release dates if you want to, but keep your hands off what doesn’t (ever) belong to you. What’s complicated about this? What WRONG with you fucking people?

The Crown reserves the right to bring charges/proceed to prosecution against any UK citizen in a criminal case without fear of counter-claim by any person in the event of a failed case/dropped charges so no, they will have no legal recourse.