I think it is stealing but its not like im jacking a car or literaly robbing a store. And the music i download is bloody hard to find in stores. If its in the store then the record company has already sold it to a shop, thus its the shops where ripping off. In the long run it would affect there income but ffs! they make billions in that industry. If there is a band with a CD out i want. i buy it, but if there is one song from a album of theres and the rest is cabbage why pay 15$ for an hour of crud.