One may not like it--but one should respect it, or get used to being considered a thief. <P As a practical matter, the tendency of consumers to use file-trading networks is a function of price. Using these netwoeks involves going to a certain amont of trouble (ripping files from your own CD's to share, setting up software) and assuming some risk (of spyware). If labels cut out about thirteen layers of perk-slurping middlemen and priced CD's at a more realistic $5, file trading would vanish overnight.
Of course...one could simply opt to NOT PURCHASE the music at all,
AND not bother doing the file-swapping...but that requires people to behave as mature, responsible adults, which has been steadily deprecated over the decades.
If we are to die as a nation of freemen, we must be the authors of our own destruction.