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My brother more the die-hard CD collector, he would make a collage of the album artwork on his wall displaying his collection. In my room was a shelf devoted to CD's or if you checked my iTunes there were 1,000+ songs bought form the iTunes store; though that was short lived. LimeWire and FrostWire were the two most popular forms for pirating music around me, but I had yet to even scratch the surface. The real father for pirating was introduced to me in my high-school days was called Pirate Bay. The variety of music albums you could get from there is too much to fathom. I believe in supporting the artist, yet I’m a hypocrite at the same time. Growing up, I didn’t have the money to buy that new album from my favorite artist, so resorting to

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