[afz400]

"But hell I still don't know that it's illegal. Yeah, yeah I know the fat cat's in music industry are calling it illegal, but we shall see."
One thing that's for sure is that it will be interesting to see what happens if one of these cases really goes to a jury trial. The RIAA is going to be hard pressed to prove the drop off in sales is due to downloading and not due to the fact that theyre trying to sell crappy music. I for one would refuse to "convict" someone for using Kazaa based on the case the RIAA has laid out. The RIAA is just using the court system to extort money from people who are not quite innocent but not quite guilty of anything worth punishing.

[kingu]

The RIAA is going to be hard pressed to prove the drop off in sales is due to downloading and not due to the fact that theyre trying to sell crappy music.

Actually, the harder case would be to prove that in a recessionary period a thirty percent drop in sales of something that is unarguably an 'extra.' The RIAA would be well served by their lawyers to ensure that the issues discussed in court go no where beyond the terms defined in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, because otherwise, they are fighting a lost cause.