> Ttrading between friends is legal

I don't believe that to be true in most cases. The law is no different whether you downloaded it or ripped it from a friends CD, at least for the reciever.

110 reponses, huh? It's too bad it wasn't more scientific, because if it were that would easily be a good enough chunk of the users of the Empeg to give a very low probability of error.

I agree that the poll itself was not worded well enough to differentiate between legal and illegal downloads, but in the context of the conversation in the thread that brought about it, it seemed pretty clear to me that it meant illegal ones, and I voted accordingly. Perhaps my interpretation of the question was not shared by a lot of people, but your estimate that 70% of the people who said that they downloaded files are doing so completely legally seems rather high to me.