Interesting point of view. Which brings me to answer a previous point in a post about utilising pics on websites. Apparently in USA you can utilise pics on your website that don't belong to you so long as it's not for profitable purposes (I can't remember the specific law no. but can locate it if necessary.) That's certainly different to my country's laws. No wonder people are keen to set up websites in the US. However as for music... if there's copyright then it generally applies to playback for public issues that must be followed.

Bosnianheat26 using p2p for accessing music you might otherwise have bought is an issue. But if you would not have bought it, but just dwnlded it out of curiousity or to try it out so to speak, then (as another opinion) arguably it shouldn't be considered as bad. If you decided the music inspired you, then you could go out & buy further recordings of that artist. Try before you buy type of thing. And then of course there's those music lovers who can never get enough of the music they buy & are forced to find alternative sources for recordings such as live concerts that would never be commercially released to the public. I know people who fall into that category.