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"Have you stopped downloading since the MPAA announcement?" Honestly, I haven't paid much attention to their announcements, other than it's annoying when a site I visit gets shut down. I downloaded music illegally through various channels until iTunes came out, the previous music sites didn't have enough content and were too expensive. Then I started purchasing the music I liked at iTunes for $1/song so that I could support the artists, but I kept illegally downloading stuff I was trying out for the first time. Then I found http://mclub.te.net.ua/ where I can download an entire CD for only $2-$3 legally though the music quality is less than on iTunes. Basically, I pay $1 for every 100Mb of music I download. This is affordable for me and the industry gets their money. Right now, there are finally starting to be a few commercial trials for legally purchasing and downloading individual TV shows. Because of where I am physically located, I cannot use satellite TV due to being on a north facing apartment, cable in the building doesn't work, and broadcast TV has more snow than my old home in Pennsylvania! Thus, the only way I can watch shows is to illegally download them, originally from niteshdw then from other sites. When TV shows can be legally downloaded at an affordable price, I'll definitely be buying them. Just like I buy Stargate DVDs because they're affordable and download Star Trek illegally due to the DVD prices being 2-3 times higher. There's a scifi download site that I've been involved with for a couple years that has definite plans to shut down once the same content becomes legally available for download at a cost of no more than $3/episode.

Looks like an amature kitbash, not even a good one like I see over at SCN.

As for the ozone hole mentioned earlier, we were taught in school that it was caused by a specific chemical (not a greenhouse chemical either) that has been banned and it will start repairing itself about 30 years from now.

LOL Watching the progression of this thread is great :D Gone from sane to conspiracy to flat out nuttiness LOL BTW, where I live in NC, 48% of the gas price is pure tax and I've heard it's closer to 80% over in europe. The high prices aren't because of the market, they're because of the government.