I'll occasionally stream unlicensed (or at least I assume) tv shows that I missed in their airing that I can't find a legitimate source to stream (e.g. I missed the season 4 finale of Mad Men and AMC doesn't put their full episodes online, so I streamed that from megavideo), but that's about it. I don't have a dvr or other means to record shows (other than an old vcr) so I watch most shows I miss via hulu. With all the movies available to stream via Netflix (even if they're not particularly good) I don't see the need to download pirated movies. There are few movies that I'm that anxious to see (if I am, I'll see them at the theaters - the rest I let percolate in my queue until their turn comes). There was a time when I didn't have a tv and was living 800 miles away from my wife and I was lonely that I routinely streamed tv shows I shouldn't have. I knew it was illegal, but did it anyway.

Music, well, there's a bit more complicated of a story. When Napster first came out when it didn't occurt to me that it was any different than taping off the radio or making a mix tape for a friend (which I suppose are both illegal as well), I downloaded quite a few songs (well quite a few being relative as my laptop at the time only had a 4 gig hard drive). Once I became convinced it was illegal I stopped. Now I've sort of swung to the opposite extreme in that I don't like downloading mp3's, but prefer to buy the full album so I can own something tangible - typically buy all my cd's used off half.com or amazon or something unless at a concert so the artists really aren't getting anything more than if I'd pirated it. I still have a bunch of those first napstered mp3's though - 2 laptops later - and haven't made an effort to get the full cd version for most of them - some I have.

So I guess I'm saying that while I know it's wrong, it doesn't feel that wrong to me and fear of viruses and lack of time/interest is keeping me from doing more of it more than the fact that it's wrong. (Holy crap, I'm not sure I like how that sounds reading it back - does that make me a sociopath?)