If it's good I'll buy it--simple as that. I just download to make sure it's actually worth paying for before going out and wasting my money and time on something that I'll later find out wasn't as good as I thought it would be.

I have a collection of literally about ten thousand dollars worth of video games, anime and movies that I've slowly acquired over the years. About 95% of it I wouldn't have even KNOWN about were it not for P2P and Bit Torrent downloading.

I recently wrote a post about 'piracy' on my blog if anyone wants to read my 4:30 AM rantings about the media industries' opinions on downloading. :P

http://www.nerdculture.org/2007/10/30/why-does-piracy-exist/