They don’t have Tool on Spotify. So I went and got their discography illegally off pirate bay. …Got a letter in the mail that told me to stop. So you know what i did? I downloaded the Beatles too! 
I don’t feel guilty… Tool and the Beatles have plenty of money. I pay 9.99 a month for Spotify, so I’m supporting the industry. That’s what I tell myself anyway.
Torrenting nearly drove me round the bend. I had a program that tracked and blocked specific connecting computers, and gave you a list of denied connections. All these hits from the Chinese government, US military bases, and on and on. My paranoia could not deal with it 
Downloading that stuff should be free, its the internet, anything goes.
I would be too paranoid…
You must be in the UK or somewhere in Europe - I hear they can turn off your Internet if you keep at it…
I’ve received many letters from my isp about downloading movie torrents. They can cancel your Internet or increase your monthly bill. I pay 40 dollars a year for a VPN now and haven’t had any letters since. It’s a pretty sweet deal. I watch a lot of movies
I have maybe 11 downloaded albums which a friend downloaded and ripped onto a cd for me back in the day. All the files have now become corrupted…karma. Support the music! Though I understand frustration with movies not being free. Or that one album that one artist decided to make only 1000 physical copies and sell them…Music for Earthworms, Mind Fusion. But then again don’t know how youtube gets away with it
When it comes to music, basically everything can be downloaded off of Youtube via download sites. I don’t think musicians deserve every penny of every downloadable song they make. It should be about spreading free joy & happiness - at least that was my motive when I started composing music. I quit composing because I didn’t have a real audience.
I liked Fred Durst’s & Moby’s attitude about music “pirating”. They were basically just happy for them, happy that people were just listening to their music and spreading it.
Real entertainers make money through touring. Merchandise is fun but should not be the sole form of revenue for the entertainer. I only bought albums of bands I genuinely felt improved my life.
If they sent you a letter it means they are seriously irritated at you. I would be careful. They might even decide to make an example out of you.
Music legally is so expensive and I have so many tracks I’d like to have that it’s too hard to choose what to buy. So I don’t buy anything nor have I used tools like limewire to get singles/albums since my collection got wiped out when an external hard drive malfunctioned.
I do have a last fm account but have not used it much recently. The service was good but then changes were made that have sent it downhill and it’s a shadow of what it used to be.
Doing it legally can be a very expensive thing and doing it illegally risks trouble. It’s a lose lose situation.
Get a VPN guys, it’s like 5 bucks a month.
I’m in the States.
I’m probably gonna stop now…
At least the warning wasn’t for downloading porn videos off piratebay and your parents saw or something 
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