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I never said Kazaa was terrorist, I claimed sites that sell rights to pirated software like Kazaa earn income, which you tried to deny.

Show me how much money KaZaa has earned through from its users. I see no subscription area in there.

Other sites like that exist and may and probably do fund terrorism and other illicit activities, that's what the congressional reports say.

Probably, huh? Such as? I highly doubt Thepiratebay makes any money. In fact, they revel in their freeness, and they make fun of lawyers that try to come after them, since they are based in Sweden (as I recall). The only places pirates are acutally raking in the cash is when they sell bootleg copies of movies, and that happens mostly in Asian countries, which on a related note, is why the MPAA is wanting to sell movies for only $1.50 there.

You can rail against Congress some more if you want, and they do make many major mistakes

Yes they do and I certainly will. They seem to all be complete morons when it comes to technology issues. I wouldn't be surprised if half of them still used typewriters.

is under seige by international media pirates and open source cybercommunists is something I strongly support. And I don't see any reason why I shouldn't.

You really think Linux users hate America? Or Firefox users?

I'm sorry, but I strongly disagree with you. I should be able to use a CD that I bought and import it onto my iPod, if I so choose. I should be able to rip individual tracks from multiple CDs that I own, and create my own mixes. I should be able to make a backup DVD copy of a movie that I own, since DVDs scratch fairly easily. The RIAA and MPAA seek to outlaw FAIR USE, and that is something I will always strongly oppose.

Hey man, I've probably got a LOT more invested in media than you do. If anyone should be worried about something nefarious happening to their collection it's me, couple hundred DVD's and always growing, couple thousand CD's, and more legal copies of software than probably anybody you know.

So don't try to lecture me on how important it is to make backups. I make them myself, but that's not who these laws are against. They are against pirates, and you should be too instead of wasting my time trying to impress on me the value of one's media collection! Get real dude, the stuff would be a hell of lot cheaper for those of us ACTUALLY PAYING FOR IT if the media companies weren't trying to recoup the costs of all those pirated copies out there.