Yeah, maybe once... or twice... OK.., three times tops... Oh hell.., all day every day ;)

I used to.... but don't worry. I've officially lost all of that stuff, so it's as if I never had it. And now, I'm just not in the mood for any viruses, so I don't do it anymore.

I'm with joecavalry but just movies and music.

Face it wouldn't everyone like movies 3 weeks earlier.

Constantly. Music, Movies, Games, Applications, Operating systems...

There was a time when I had 160Gb of just good music and some movies... I'm too lazy now though, after having 3 HDD failures, looking at weeks of downloading/organizing and possibly being caught... or losing my boot disk, it looks like a monumental task.

yes(sighs then answers the door. then gets arrested by fcc agents goes to jail for 25 years and owes 40 million dollars to various record companies and movie companies)

It's not illegal if you don't get caught.

Having said this, Limewire scares me.

I do almost every day with "LimeWire" but, it's only songs - it's not the end of the world

I download stuff every day. I do it for a purpose though, I test the software and all it's competition, on full instead of demo. If after I check everything out it is worth it I buy it. If just using them demo's is supposed to make me want to buy it... not happening. I'd like to actually save a project, and run it, see the quality, and then I'm sold.

Music: No offense, but most music made these days is devoid of talent anyway. So downloading some high bass songs to play on my 3000 watt system while I'm driving isn't tearing the industry down.

Movies: I could just as easily skip the download, piece together youtube clips, and make the movie anyway. The downloads are devoid of the special features. So if the movie is THAT good, I will purchase for the extra features.

Games: Meh, tell them to work a real job for a day, and manage college while doing it. Sorry, not all of us opt to live with our parents, some like to rough it. I'm not about to keep paying 60 dollars for the newest games. Then 10 dollars for every downloadable add on they make, which tends to have glitches and problems anyway.

All in all, I look at it like this. Are the developers/musicians working hard? Do they have a dark tan because they WANTED it or because they were working up on a 3 story roof for 12 hours in 100 degree weather? Exactly. They should be happy that other people want to be involved in their music and movies, etc. They are ungrateful. Say you are dedicated, you buy all CD's and go see them as much as you can. How many times do they turn out to be total dickheads? How many times are they so arrogant you stop even liking their music...

When they all look at themselves as normal humans like us, I'l gladly start paying for their products again.

Yes I do, of course! I discover A LOT new artists and bands by downloading "random" music and if it's pretty good I buy the cd.