It really sounds like you are trying to justify stealing software and music from P2P sources. Unless and until the creator or copyright holder gives you permission to use the application without paying for it....you must pay for it.

As far as your arguement for your ISP service costing you $50 for service and THIS pays for the right to use P2P as you see fit...WRONG!!! The $50 fee ISP service fee pays for exactly that...the ISP service. If you want an ISP service that includes free music downloads, software downloads, etc. I make 2 suggestions.

First, contact any ISP out there (there are thousands, so take your pick) and request this type of service from them. Again, your $50 service fee pays for the connection to the internet and the typical bandwidth that you are going to use.

The other suggestion is create your own ISP and allow you and people like you to pay a monthly fee that covers legal downloads of the music and software that you are currently stealing. This means that you will need to buy all the hardware that an ISP uses; negotiate the rights to allow downloads of the software and/or music; and then pay the royalties that are due to the creators and copyright holders.

If you think that you can make a successful business model like this, I recommend it. I am sure that you can find at least a few people that would be willing to pay a single fee to cover all of the potential software and music downloads...or maybe not...because stealing for free is always cheaper than paying a fee of any sort.

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