No, it's a reality check. Stealing mp3s is wrong no matter how you spin it. Just because you spend a lot of money on the live music industry doesn't give you the right to steal the studio material. If free downloading leads you to a new artist then what's so hard about picking up the CD the next time you're near an HMV? Or downloading it from iTunes? Am I perfect? No, but I've already seriously curtailed my free downloading with a monthly Napster subscription and by buying CDs of artists I enjoy. The recording industry can't put the genie back in the bottle but we don't have to be such assholes about it.