Illegal file sharing

Yeah! I definitely was excited to hear on this book. I want to read it! Okay, so maybe I'm not like rushing out to buy it. But we have all thought about pirating things, maybe have done so. And like Professor Fry, said the line is so thin. Do we have the right to copy a CD (or download it on our MP3 player) since we already own it? We all raised our hands, i certainly won't stop doing that.
But I have to admit, i have burned DVD's with pirate software too, and one of my Friends just gets all over my case for it. This is why it's so expensive for the rest of us, he says... I guess that's what retailers tell us too, right? Shoplifting drives up the prices.. makes sense. Okay, I'm convinced. I will TRY not to do it again.
As far as downloading illegally from Limewire or Nabster, i had a friend who tried to "help" set me up with Limewire and ended up totally killing my computer. virus, or something, it was bad, and i was upset, needless to say, i have honestly never attempted since then to ever download illegally from a site.
I would like to learn how to protect myself however, when it comes to file sharing. I just don't know enough about it. I have the WiFi on my laptop and it's always asking me if i want to share with " so and so... " another computer. And i really don't' like the idea of someone on my computer. OR snooping around it. So for the protection factor alone, i am very interested... So i should go and download the ecopy.. just kidding... I'll check it out.
I have learned that whatever it is that i want, the public library usually has and reserving it really takes no time at all. It's all online now. So we watch most of the movies we want to see between netflix and the library. I just wish they would start carrying textbooks and save us hundreds of dollars in those fees. And speaking of that, if i could pirate anything.... it would be the textbooks, i think that is ridiculous the gouging they do to us. Talk about Exploitation.... (see just about anything can be justified... LOL)
And PS the group did an excellent job presenting the book, i was engaged.