Society is really screwed up now.

[FS]

I download music and have my brother copy CDs for me, partly because as much as I love music I'm too cheap to spend as much money as is currently necessary to buy a CD, partly because it's easy and quick and free. I don't keep my files in my shared folder, to avoid attracting attention and to keep my connection from caving in.

Yeah, a lot of us have gotten used to getting music for free from within the comforts of our own home, but don't be a hypocrite about it. If you have a problem with the way the record industry does things, send a message to them by not buying their material. Don't steal it and say you're striking a blow for justice and hitting the Man where it hurts.

Now, until someone in the recording industry gets the balls to try something new and spectacular, like offering legally downloadable music at a fair price, the rest of them will keep trying to annoy us and scare us with lawsuits and preposterous law suggestions. Are they taking it too far? Sometimes. Do you get mad when a shopkeeper shoots a guy who's robbing his store?

I find it ridiculous, just like people getting all huffy when Napster got closed down. We're THIEVES, people. We have no rights.