Originally Posted by Somewhere Over the Atlantic
True, but then do you ever see the recording industry (suspiciously) "adjust" its product pricing like the oil industry has over the past two months? And let's not even get into shady acts of retribution against recording artists who have questioned prices of their own recorded product...
You can debate what record companies do or don't do.
But, downloading pirated recordings from bitorrent and the like is unambigiously stealing. The actions of the record companies are not relevant. Absolutely no difference from shoplifting or auto theft.