I agree that a lot of people will see it this way, but it really isn't. If people remove the annoyance at not getting their way, with free music and programs, these companies are merely trying to keep people from wantonly sharing their products to others for free. Okay big stretch analogy here, but if we had replicators like in StarTrek and we went around all the food buisinesses scanning all the pizza hut pizzas and taco's from taco bell into are replicators and started giveing them to people for free, we would be doing damages to the companies trying to make a buck in our economy. You can't be half communist/half capitalist :). Either people have a right to make money in exchange for products they produce or no one does. With Mp3's its as if people want the world to be communist as far as their "wants" go, but they still want to get payed at the end of the day for "their" work. There's some major hipocrisy going on. I don't want them to stop me from getting the music "I" want either, but I think comparing them to S&W is stretching it a little.