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Personally, I'm not going to condemn someone for downloading music from the internet. But I can't condone it, either. It may not be legal, but it's sure easy, and it's sure hard to get caught if you do it. And there sure are a lot of people doing it.


I'm not an angel. I've stolen a song here or a song there in the past. I've stopped downloading songs for a few personal reasons.

1. I like knowing where the song came from... what album... what mix, etc.
2. I like knowing what it was encoded with, or better, I like encoding it myself.
2b. I like this because it ensures I get the quality I want from the song in question. Most of the songs I've ever downloaded were just not the quality I wanted (I'm picky). I'd rather buy the CD and encode it myself. I may not be an audio perfectionist, but I notice shitty quality when I hear it.

This is one side effect I like about the empeg. It has driven me to re-encode all of my songs using a new encoder and a better quality setting. The empeg has made me re-look at my music collection and want the best that I can get from it.

Kureg