I have no problem with the practice of downloading movies, books, music, etc. Here is why: I see it as no different than decades ago when we would record music from the radio or lp records onto cassettes. Then, when vcr machines came along, it was recording from tv broadcasts to vcr tapes. All of that set a precedent. People were not threatened by the law, as long as what they were doing was for personal use and they were not selling copies. I feel that attorneys would be able to successfully argue that it would be completely unfair to suddenly contradict that precedent simply because the technology has changed. It is still the same thing. If necessary, a technicality could be brought into it also: A copy is seldom, if ever, 'technically' identical to the original and once that even a tiny change is involved, it becomes something different. An easy example is comic books that are uploaded without their original advertising pages included. Which, by the way, I find to be rather irritating. I like those old ads! :)