[Night Stalker]

Originally posted by Yorick: Willow, filesharing is theft and MORE! It is theft if you take the file without paying the asking price or receiving permission from the owner, and it's even worse to then pass it on to someone else. What else do you calling robbing someone? Theft theft theft. Filesharers are thieves pure and simple. No it is not propoganda.

You are so wrong and so simple in your position here. File sharing in of itself is NOT theft. I understand that this topic is near and dear to you. Maybe it's abit too near, for you are missing the forrest for the trees. File sharing is much bigger and more complex than a means of pirating Intellectual Property.

I highly suggest you read up on the Open Source Software movement. As software is very similar to music. You can find plenty of information at

www.eff.org
www.stallman.org -- This is Richard Stallman's personal site. He is the one that started the free software movement (which is different than Open Source). I perosnally think some of his ideas are abit too far out there, but they do show a model (Open Source more particularly) for the Music and Movie industries to profit on free ideas.