With the global crisis going on?
well, I personally hate licensed anime, I rather buy directly from japan but with expedition costs, I can only afford whatever comes original here which would cost twice it's original cost. BUT there are cases that, for example: after watching Nanoha and Spice and Wolf and liking it, my boyfriend decided to buy it from japan. The DVD's came with some gifts (posters, character design books and cards for Nanoha, puzzle and booklet for Spice & Wolf) but it wouldn't had happened if the subs wouldn't had been downloaded.

as for music, music quality will never be the same for MP3's as for CD's. Again, it's worth downloading to decided whether to buy it or not.

I don't feel guilty at all (im not very moral when it comes to downloading :P). We rarely sell anime where I live, and the places that do sell it are pirated copies or they jack the price up unfairly.

I rarely download animes anymore (I only did so for the first 60 episodes of Bleach) because watching online is so much more convenient :D

I don't feel guilty at all. for anime, it's most likely the american companies well mess it up. For music, I wouldn't really want to buy a cd if I only want one song. So I'd just download them.

Not really
i always do it xD

Not at all. First you can easily download them without problems here, and second if ever you would buy anime dvd where I live, they would just mostly also be downloaded copies, just burned.

I dont feel guilty at all..i have downloaded a lot anime/manga/music etc..but i always try to buy if i see something that i really liked..i wouldnt want to spend money in something that after i see i wouldnt like it!

I would feel guilty if the animes were readily available here without being
f***ed with, shitty dubs and crap quality, and shitty subs and ridiculous price.
Only way for me to actually enjoy an anime like it was meant to is to
download the raw.

And animes that i like, i order them from the net, which is the only way for me to get them here in Australia.
Having a box, a real physical object still has it's value. World is going digital but
noting beats the feeling of holding something in your hands.

I don't really feel guilty. But sometimes, I feel a little bit bad because I think that I'm not being a real fan. You know, because if you like something a lot, you'll want to show your love for the show. And that means spending time, energy, and MONEY! To buy the manga, anime episodes, music, figures, etc. So yeah.... Buuut that's just me.....

I don't really feel guilty, although I probably should. My justification for it is that I can't afford to buy a DVD for an anime that I may or may not like, then find out that I don't like it, and have a hell of a time foisting it off on someone else. Or getting my money back at all, since you can't really get a refund for movies. I almost bought one DVD but then decided against it, downloaded the series, and laughed myself off my chair because it was so stupid. And saved an otherwise wasted $30.

I only buy my manga, though. I dislike reading scanlations, and I prefer the quaintness of holding something physical in my hand, and not dealing with sometimes iffy quality. If I need to get to a certain page I can just flip through quickly. And I buy my manga because it's cheaper in the short run. I can more easily afford $12 for a volume of manga than $40 for a single DVD. Especially on my college student budget.

For CDs, I don't really have an excuse. . .Outside of laziness. :/ It's really never occurred to me to buy the soundtracks, although I don't illegally download domestic music.

It really makes me wish that movie stores would have a wider selection of anime to rent. :/ Back in the VHS days there was SO MUCH to rent and watch, and now. . .Nothing.

*sigh*

Sometimes I wish anime were mainstream.

Since a lot of anime series aren't even licensed here in Mexico (and overall Latin America), I can't say I'm hurting the creators or the studios, since I have small chances to get the original DVDs. Also, some series I like (like the Da Capo series) aren't even licensed even outside Japan, so... what industry would I harm? Importing R2 DVDs is a no no for me, specially because they're too expensive and they offer very little content.

If there's stuff released officially here and I have the possibilities to buy, I do it definitely.

No, I don't feel guilty. I think watching anime online first is a good way to decide if I want to buy the show or not; of course not all anime is released in North America, so how else am I suppose to own it? As far as songs go, it's hard to find asian music where I live unless I buy online (which is expensive), so I download instead. Of course, when I travel to Japan, I do buy the music there :)

I don't have enough money to buy the anime and songs I like to watch/listen to

Besides, I just wrote a paper on why music "piracy" should be legal. At least in America, the labels get a vast majority of the money. If artists didn't have to get lables, or got labels which didn't take so much of the profits, they would make more than enough money on gigs and tours and the like. Even small bands just starting out.

None, none at all, i feel pleasure instead, its almost estatic, as to how i have seen over half thousand anime (tv/ova/web/movie/other), and collected more than thousand, OST and ED, with out paying a sent (internet not included)

Only sometimes. The thing with anime and manga though is that it's impossible for me to view it otherwise. With music, the majority of it are from bands that make enough as it is. I only really feel guilty when I download songs from local bands in New Zealand, since they're not exactly what you would call filthy rich.

Actually to be honest if it was a anime I really liked I wish I could've helped and supported the people who made the anime and thats when I feel guilty. But if the anime sucked no way. But yea some anime like inuyasha I only wish I would've been able to help the people who produced the anime cause like Inuyasha kind of ended without really ending. Like it kind of left us hanging. It wasn't a proper ending afterall but yeah. Course from time to time out of my own guilt I buy manga to support in a sense.