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Is it right for people to be sending these songs around the Internet without paying for them? Of course not.

Says who?? I have downloaded MANY songs from this band, and yet, they still make TONS of money. They have a VERY reasonable trading policy.

I vote for a boycott on ALL artists and labels who encourage suing their former customers.

A thief is not a customer.

A boycott by thieves is an oxymoron.

There is no constitutional right to steal.

Pursuing lawbreakers via civil and criminal avenues is a legitimate and necessary function of government.

If an individual band or music company wishes to give up their intellectual property rights, that's their right. Those who choose to keep their rights should be respected, not attacked by freeloaders who aren't willing to abide by the law.

This issue reminds me of the 1980s "bar wars" between theiving bar owners and the NFL. The latter objected to their signals being pirated by local bar owners in violation of the blackout rules. The bar owners took the attitude that everyone does it, the NFL owners wouldn't sue and upset their fans (freeloading fans, mind you), and there were too many bars to sue them all. The NFL owners responded by suing individual owners -- a few at a time -- and won financial damages and cease-and-desist orders. Now no bar owner would risk piracy and having his business sued.

Capitalism 1, Anarchy 0.