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This is ridiculous. I remember the first day I pirated. I had installed Limewire and it was so simple to search and download songs my sister was so amazed along with me. We told my dad and he said "Okay, as long as cops don't show up at my door it's fine". Worst response. I feel so guilty pirating now. I have pirated my whole life but now I feel guilty. I don't know the last time I asked someone "You pirate your songs?" and they answered "No, I buy them". People, even I would argue that the artists make money from concerts, but that's still not what they have worked for. They worked for these tens of thousands of sales you can see in the picture, which shows all of Thepiratebay's audio torrents sorted by downloads. I feel that the figures reported to these artists aren't anywhere close to the listeners they have. I can with confidence say that you can EASILY double the sales on iTunes. Not to mention that there are other legitimate ...

My parents don't love each other.  It affects my life. Everyday I come home to a household of not even friends. My parents treat each other like roommates. Their marriage was just out of "this is something I just gotta do". If my parents had the love of a love marriage, I think my life would even be different. My mom seems to always just be okay or sad. I haven't seen my mom happy in maybe 3 years, when my sister graduated. I can obviously give my love but that's not enough. They fight/come to a strong disagreement at least twice a week.Every moment they share results in a negative remark from one side to the other. Worst of all, there's nothing I can do about it. I feel that one day I'm going to be the one telling my dad about love when it should be the other way around. (Copy/paste from other post) My parents have never hugged in front of me. I've seen them hold hands once, January 2012, near the Madamme Tussauds Wax Museum, while we were walking tow...