[Melusine]

I comepletely agree with your first paragraph Groj, and I think downloading habits like yours are indeed beneficial for the music industry (if not the hit-pushing kind).
But there's one thing I've noticed, re: your second paragraph. I've seen quite a lot of children recently who really have gotten so used to illegal music being available online, that they would never consider buying a CD because they hardly know any better. They are used to the (auditively inferior) MP3 format and the notion of buying music (or films, or games) that they can get for free is ludicrous to them. So I don't see a problem now, but there may very well be one in coming years. There's a huge difference between people who download because they love music (like you) and people who in downloading show that they don't in fact give a crap about it.