While I agree that "legal" music downloads are really cheap these days, most of his criticism is just not true if you actually know what you're doing... "scene

While I agree that "legal" music downloads are really cheap these days, most of his criticism is just not true if you actually know what you're doing... "scene releases" have a fixed quality scheme (encoding, ID3, ...) and the proper torrent community orftp/usenet server will max out your home connection easily. That being said, if you actually have a regular income, music should not be that big of a problem to buy...