[Lx_Nen]

The simple answer for me is no.

I have a flac rip of the Japanese version in my car, and a paid for Japanese version coming to me by airmail. If I hadn't downloaded, I'd just have made that rip myself for in-car use (ever since I had a Japanese double CD worth a fortune stolen from my car, and long out of print irreplaceable CD scratched in my glovebox, I only use CDRs in the car). All I'm doing is timeshifting the arrival of the CD I've already paid for. I'll even get that 'unwrapping the new album' feeling when it does arrive, because of the bonus DVD.

I have no moral issues with 'try before I buy' torrenting, because I buy lots of CDs that I wouldn't have without bitotrrent.. and in this case it's 'try after I buy, but before delivery', which is even less morally objectionable to me.

Do I feel guilty about seeding back about 7% of the flac rip before I the download finished and I jumped off the torrent? Hmm... yes actually, I do.

I only feel ok with seeding things that are long out of print, and I fall back on the admittedly weak reasoning that if I didn't seed new albums someone else would. I jumped off the torrent asap, as I always do with new releases.