I may download television but I still do pay for it!

Um. I don't know how to put this one out there other than to just type it really quickly...

I pirate television.

There. I said it. Can't very well take it back now. I do feel justified in it. I'm one of those people who has spent ridiculous amounts on buying television shows on DVD. I maintain an 8 dollar a month subscription to Hulu Plus. Oh, and technically my 'rent' goes towards the overall satellite bill for this place. I've paid my dues.

And I always harken back to the ole' if you've paid for something once, downloading a replacement copy is justifiable....

I'm also one of those types that is horrible on anything that is susceptible to being scratched. In an interest of being a halfway decent driver, my CD's are regularly scattered across the passenger seat of any car I've ever driven. As a result, 'slob fate' determines pretty much every music choice I ever make. (For about a month and a half straight the only thing I listened to was Blues Traveler's Cover Yourself. Swear to jeebus, everytime I picked up a CD from my passenger seat, that was the one on top...funny enough, at the end of that run, I woke up to a voicemail from J. Popper himself. Story for another day, I suppose.)

And I end up buying about 3 copies of every fucking CD I ever like. Until Napster. I still bought CD's...truth be told I still spend money in actual record stores. Fucking shocking, I know....but I have downloaded my fair share of stuff I just refuse to keep purchasing when I've paid for it before.

Same for movies and TV.

And I've even been the lucky recipient of one of those 'C&D' letters. From 20th Century Fox. Over a fucking King of the Hill episode. A show that I have bought season after season of...watched endlessly on television...sat thru hours of commercials to see...hell, I'm watching a commercial for a Motorola Tablet right now...in the middle of...dun dun dun da....King of the Fucking Hill.

I download my television now....but I still pay for it in a myriad of other ways....why does that make me the enemy of the industry?