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The biggest shame to me in this great country built on capitalism. The younger generations are ruining it because they are cheaters, lazy, and CHEAP. Why should we tip waitresses, there's no law that says we have to, we do it because of respect.

The loss of respect for the really good artist is rapidly changing the scenery of the music industry. If you want to hear any of the true old time Country and Western artist anymore, you have to go to Branson, Missouri,sp. They have great new hits, but you never hear them on the radio anymore, a real shame. They never go on tour, you have to drive to see them. Same thing with the Stars in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the price to get in these shows is no bargain.

I don't see how you just say good bye to Rock-N-Roll, every type of music is being raped by this epidemic of people being too cheap to pay for legally recorded copies. For those who complain that an album has only one good song in the entire package, shame on the artist for ripping you off. It's a shame that singles are not pushed like in the past. I guess that's capitalism at its' best and worst sides. Wouldn't everyone like to have a ONE HIT WONDER to live on for the rest of their life?

I got just a little off track from the main subject, cheaters, lazy, and cheap. If you don't have to pay for really good music, it dies as we know it. If you can steal music, why not shoplift, rob banks, and kill people.

The real disgrace is the loss of respect for someones hard work and effort. I'm sure 99.9% of the people stealing this music would scream and raise holy hell if there way of making a living was stolen from them by someone who is too lazy and cheap to buy their product legally.

I'm kind of dismayed that everyone is greeting this news by running around saying yay, let's share some more copyrighted songfiles.

What the RIAA fear most is not that people will copy their (RIAA's) music, but rather that musicians will use file-sharing to promote their own wares and decide they don't need the RIAA's "promotional" services.

If the RIAA doesn't want people to listen to music for free, why do they pay radio stations to play their music? And anyone with a decent audio system can easily record songs off the radio.

What's needed isn't royalty charges on media, or new evil projects like Palladium. After all, people still buy software which can be copied and distributed no less easily than music. What's needed is a recognition that the current oligopoly the big five record companies have over music promotion is not justifiable morally or technologically. They will lose, and deserve to lose, from competition from independent record labels.