Again, that isn't the issue.
The issue is how to profitably produce and distribute music.
What some are calling theft is simply a symptom of the disease. More laws won't prevent it.
Passing laws against file-swapping (or enforcing those already there) will do nothing to slow the problem.
IF the goal is to produce and distribute music profitably, laws are not a solution. Technology makes it mute.
Until people see it as fair and reasonable, they will continue their swapping. Of course, SOME people will always swap, just like some people always cheat on taxes.
The model must change.
Apple has just one of an infinite number of alternate models.
Irrelevant. It is extremely hard for me to believe that otherwise intelligent, principled Freepers continue to defend thieves who are stealing other people's goods and services. True conservatives don't steal.
As a consumer, you have two choices: Either buy another man's product or don't buy it. To claim that you somehow have the right to take another person's product without their permission because their business model is not the best or because you don't like lawyers is sophistry and hair-splitting. Otherwise, breaking and entering would be absolutely legal IF you had the newest model Ripper 2000 crowbar. And that is anarchy.