Downloading music/films from a legal source is fine. It is when you use illegal sites or are not paying for the material when it becomes wrong. It is stealing.
It's not just the movie stars or the pop stars who are losing out. You are stealing from hundreds of other people and may well put them out of a job, which in this current climate is hardly ideal. There are hundreds of people who need to be paid in making/producing/editing/marketing/selling/I could go on forever and by not paying for the end result you are in effect stealing from all of these people. People who are not on multi-million dollar/pound salaries, but are living on an average wage and for some, quite a lot less than average.
Music and films are not a necessity. You do not need them, you want them. I want a lot of things, but I can't afford them so I need to accept that I either do without or work and save up for what I want. I don't just go around stealing stuff that I want. Singles are quite cheap (79p) which is less than a bottle of Coke. There is also the radio if you want to listen to music but cannot afford to pay for it.
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