[andrewas]

While copyright theft is certainly a bad thing, the music industry dosent sell me what I want to buy. An album might be decent value if it had loads of decent tracks on it, but none of them do. So to get a CD worth listening to, I have to buy a few albums and copy them over.

Selling single MP3s over the net would fix that. If it was done in conjunction with those who designed the fasttrack and gnutella networks, it could be made secure. If it was done in opposition to those networks, it would fail miserably.

Besides, suing a couple of students who were using internal networks, not internet sharing, isnt going to affect the big picture.

Oh and, why in the hells should I pay extra because of the music video. Its not on the CD I buy, and if it is I have better things to look at. Only time I ever see the damn things is when Im in burger king and they have MTV on. And even then I read the paper instead.

Oh, and another thing. Remember that copy-protection that was designed to disable PC CDROMs, or in fact anything more sophisticated than a plain audio player? Yes, prevent piracy by making it impossible to play the music in large proportion of CD players. In fact, I dont own another kind. This is a brilliant way to make money isnt it.