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What the people who say the law is the law have got to ask themselves is do we want to be like it is in some contries in Europe? Over the years I have read stories where the houses and computer equipment of software pirates were raided/ siezed not by the police, but by hired guns from the software industry. ANd this was like in Norway and Sweden!
The tatics that the recording industry is using is 180 degrees out from what they should be doing. This is because they first want to maintain total control over what is produced, second they have for years been in colusion with each other on pricing (they just dropped wholesale prices quite a lot), third they are trying to hold on to an outdated mode of distribution, and finally they know that if the consumer was allowed to purchase/access all the music in their catalogs, the current bunch of artists they have would sink to the bottom like stones in water.
It is a fact, many times studied, that people downloading music are for the largest part looking for titles that are not sold in the local top 40/latest bimbo/talking parolee music store.
The music industry should be instead looking to surplant the P2P netwroks with their own download sites that have reasonable prices (not the dollar a song BS which was done to keep people buying the actual CD instead of making their own), unlimited use of the downloaded product, their entire catalogs available, small sample files that can be streamed, and reliable software with no hiddeen BS spyware on it. They could also just farm this service out to others as a way to stimulate and spread the costs.
I really believe that the first company to do this will see it's total revenues skyrocket from it's previous ones.
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