*Sharing with a smile* I often try to wonder how I'd feel if I was a musician and my song was being downloaded by millions everyday for free. I've come to the conclusion that It wouldn't matter to me as long as the work got out there. I mean the same goes for the artists that create images and gifs for the web....I'm a copy and paste queen and have recently found the joy of downloading tunage as well. I just wanna share the joys of my finding with others, that's a nice thing to do, not bad, nice! I quote from books on ocassion and give credit where credit is due, it's only fair. As I build my website, which is primarily for my enjoyment and babble, I surf to find images and songs and download or copy and pasted as needed, I'd be flattered if someone copied or imitated anything I did, which is the case most the time cos I'm so god damn wonderul! Anyhoo, it would nice if the artists try to stop shutting down the free mp3 websites, they should chill and go with the flow of it all. When I worked downtown the rumors spread hard and fast, Courtney Love had gone into Orca Records up on Capital Hill and took all the bootlegged Nirvana CD's saying 'I think these belong to my husband...' and left, bootlegs should be embraced as well, Courtney didn't have the right to them in my opinion nor did she have the right to steal the Newsweek from my store, unfortunately the issue was the first magazine to release the news on Kurts tragic demise, so um.....we let her take it. Back to the subject at hand, some artists embrace bootlegs Dave Matthews, Prince, The Grateful Dead, Phish.......it only endears them to their fan base, and it their music goes out to thousands of more soon to fans. Sharing creations is a good thing, it inspires and educates, me say chill muthafuckahs. Create!