>1) The increased availability of digital music will lead to an increase in piracy (not a criticism, I agree it's arguable) I would suggest that the availabil

>1) The increased availability of digital music will lead to an increase in piracy (not a criticism, I agree it's arguable) I would suggest that the availability of pirated music is approaching a fairly good level of saturation. It also keeps pace with new releases and in most cases offers a much greater variety of older/niche music. I always try to buy what I can, but sometime it's not an option.