I am not religious about copyright, either: I have prehaps 50 downloaded tracks (few of them to see what the heck is this or that artist about before buying, the rest the things I could absolutely not find - perhaps I would have had more were it not for my slow connection), plus several hunderd tracks 'shared' with friends (most of which I am slowly replacing with my own rips). I also own more than 800 CDs, burlgars took some 200 CDs, and my brother decided he will take good care of my vinyls - in other words, I feel that record companies received pretty penny from me - for some records three times. I believe most of out members are more or less like that - be it for scrupulous adherence to copyright laws or perfectionism, the vast majority of tracks on their empegs have been paid for.

I am affraid that boycotting US music is not an option, not only because I like Pete Seeger, Suzanne Vega, Walkabouts, R.E.M., J.J. Cale or John Coltrane, but because those 'big five' record companies that control RIAA are global entities. Besides, there is worrying trend in Europy of copycating recent American absurd 'intellectual property' laws.