Even if nobody's pirating music from your neighborhood band, that says little about the overall effect of music piracy. 150,000 downloads in 4 years? That microcosm can hardly speak to the vast wealth of popular books sold every minute on this planet. And e-readers are only now starting to become popular, so the number of illegal downloads is bound to explode, as it did when mp3 players got big (Winamp, etc). Oh, to be in college now! Free music, free textbooks, and a political movement worth following...