What an interesting... (and fun) post!! I don't want to create a different debate but as I am Spanish, I cannot choose... I am already a music/film/intellectual property thief!.... or at least that was has already been decided. Here in Spain, if you buy a blank CD, DVD, a hard disk, a media player, DVD recorder, MP3 player, etc... nearly anything that can be used to hold copyrighted material, it is already taxed with a "intellectual property tax". It doesn't matter what are you going to use it for, you must pay for it. If you have a bar or a shop and you have a radio or CD player, you have to pay for it! It doesn't matter if you only play totally free music (or even your own music).. you must pay. The main "artist association", the SGAE, is well known for taking all this money for its own benefit (well the benefit of just a few people) instead of distributing it between the artists (do a quick search about SGAE in google) And it is getting even worse, they want to tax internet bandwidth, public libraries (they LEND books!!! for gods sake.. that is clearly "stealing intellectual property") Even if a "registered" artist give a charity concert, they MUST pay. They even put hidden cameras in weddings to then fine the marring couple for playing music in the ball (or having a band performing live music) I know that we must protect intellectual property, but there must be a better way to do it. Sorry for all this nonsense, but I think it was very related with the subject. Thank you.