I did not download it, but I came to be in possession of a hard drive with the entire season two of game of thrones, so that makes me just as guilty I suppose. But like last year, I will pick up the DVD of season two, so that it balances out.
Declan
You can rent movies and TV shows from iTunes.
Wasn’t it Amanda Donohue ?
You’re a better man than me. I wouldn’t have been able to resist the urge to post “Technically, the star of Castaway was Amanda Donohue.”
Well, strictly speaking it was Amanda Donohoe. 
Back in the Napster days I used to download music to sample it and see if I liked it. If I did, I would buy the cd(s). I found so much good music that way. I don’t like the radio much (too much chattering and commercials), and listen to a lot of smaller bands that wouldn’t get played on the radio anyway. So it was great.
Then when Napster folded, I went to a couple other services for a while, then they all started shutting down so I gave it up.
I have a ton of mp3’s now, but they’re all from my own cd collection. I do sometimes long for the glory days of music sharing, it was a great way to sample and check stuff out. I do understand that a lot of people use it to get free music and not pay for it though.
How do you figure?
I don’t truck with piracy.
This is an incredibly poor example.
You and others have suggested that the textbook industry is somehow a racket, but i don’t understand how the industry is to blame for your particular problem.
The textbook publisher produced a 400-page textbook. It’s not their fault if your professor only wants to use one 20-page chapter in his course; it’s not their fault that your library only has one copy; and it’s not their fault that your professor and/or your library were too lazy to digitize a copy of that chapter and make it available for download, which would have been perfectly acceptable under Fair Use in your situation.