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I'm kind of in the same boat as jaklumen. The vast majority of the file trading I've done has been to get stuff that the industry has decided isn't economically feasible to publish -- out-of-print albums and TV show episodes that haven't come out on DVD. I can understand them wanting to go after people who are pirating the latest Metallica album, but I think it's a bit unfair to hoard intellectual property, refuse to make it available, and then declare it illegal to make other copies of it.
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