Ok, I have to be honest. When I was younger I didn’t have the money to buy some software so I downloaded it on an illegal download site. The software was really expensive and I justified it by saying that they were making a ton of money and wouldn’t miss mine. I of course have a very guilty conscience so not long after downloading it I imagined someone knocking on my door and arresting me so I deleted it off my computer. You hear these stories of people getting knocks on the door from the police who then serve them with a bill for thousands of dollars for illegal downloads. We always see this as giant companies like Microsoft or Apple with millions in resources and lawyers catching people. What about my buddy who wrote a book self-published and just found it out on a download site. He isn’t making a killing, or a living by the book royalties, he is just fulfilling a dream. He doesn’t have the ability to track down who is doing this or who has downloaded it. I always thought that millionaires should complain that someone got their music free and did contribute to their drug habit or buying them another car. That scenario is maybe one percent of the artists and creators out there, the rest are struggling artists just trying to scratch out a living like my friend, maybe we should all remember that next time we look at downloading something for free.