[kingu]

Music labels have finally started seeing the light and are realizing that their customers are not the enemy. As this continues on a larger and larger scale, more competition will enter into the market, drawing prices downward as people compete for market share.

The requirements for scanning every packet on the Internet is never going to come into play. Since packets are routed on a best speed mapping, well - let’s put it this way. The page on FreeRepublic you’re reading now likely passed through three separate major network hubs, the top part of the page went down one path, the graphic for the freepathon went down another, and likely this reply went down a third.

Assembling all these pieces together to figure out if it’s a piece of copyrighted material, or even if it was encrypted, would be virtually impossible without putting in lengthy delays and picking out the other packets.

[Buggman]

Did the Wireless Pirates plunder the shift key from your keyboard?

[PapaBear3625]

Kids don’t need to download any more. With massive increases in available disk space, a kid can keep his entire music collection on his laptop. Then, when he visits his friend, he just merges his collection with his friend’s. After a little while, every kid’s got everything worth hearing on his laptop/PC, and no network was involved