[andrewas]

Amen to that.

Consider this - silent is released (and are the going to target it anyway? MP3 format cant carry a viral payload, and you cant force an underground community to switch to another format). Silent is cracked. Silent stays cracked, since there will be more crackers cracking it than RIAA techs updating it. End result, any halfway-sentient pirate will be immune to and stay immune to silent.

Who gets hurt? The people who download an MP3, like it and buy the CD. Except you didnt let them listen to it and instead froze their comp for an hour or 2. I dont know about the rest of you, but if someone tried that on my comp I would most definately not be buying anything from them. And since you cant buy direct from the musician, that means I wouldnt be buying that music at all.

But the people damaging the music industry by downloading and sharing large quantities of music, they are totally unaffected if they pay attention to whats going on, and they will for the most part.