[Henrietta]

Not by a long shot. They're not going after those that download, only those that offer stuff for download. And since they're only going after those that offer stuff for download who are in the United States, there's gonna be plenty of other sources around the world to download from for those who want to download music.

They should just offer the music for sale on the internet on a per-song and save themselves the distribution costs. I don't want to pay $18 for a cd on which I only like one song, and neither does anyone else, which is why file-swapping is so widespread.

[BkBinder]

They're not going after those that download, only those that offer stuff for download.

At the risk of showing my ignorance (yet again today!), is an individual in violation of the law if: a)that individual offers for download copyrighted music; and, b)owns legal copies of each song that he offers for that download?

It seems to me that the downloader would be the party infringing the copyright.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

They should just offer the music for sale on the internet on a per-song and save themselves the distribution costs.

That has been my suggestion for years. They should digitize their entire catalogs and start building the websites and setting up accounts for all those that wish to download. I don't see a downside.

[tutstar]

and folks can still burn copies of someone else's cd...they are really going to tick people off if they start trying to check what's on someone's computer