2 Way Street

So a Boston based research group (NPD) says 5 billion songs were downloaded illegally last year, compared to the 300 million purchased legally. What I would like to know is how do they determine illegal from legal. Now I know there are some people downloading songs that have never paid for them but if you are like me (and I hate to give away how old I am but) you have owned several different versions of the same group. I for one once owned 8 track tapes. Of course the industry said we are improving our formats and albums were followed by cassette tapes, followed by cds etc. etc. Well sorry mr music industry exec but I have paid for my right to listen to the music I am downloading now. I have switched formats on all of the above listed occasions and paid dearly for it. With a quick scan I can count approximately 900 albums sitting on my shelf beside me. Cassettes, well add another 3-4 hundred. CDs, add another 200. I am sorry about the 8 tracks but when I left home my mother & father thought, lets get rid of these, he'll never use them again. Too bad so sad for your dwindling industry. You have brought this upon yourselves and it is a two way street. Finally a new format available where I don't have to go out and spend 20 or 30 thousand just to be able to listen to something I have already paid for more than once.