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In response to Onewinged:
How legal is it? A judge just ruled that it is 100% legal for now.
Having a private organization being able to snoop your connection with little or no due process should scare you.
Just because you can't find a song/cd/album doesn't mean you have any right to have it. What if someone wanted a rare beanie baby? Just because you can't find it doesn't mean you can start making copies. Its very common now to create intentional shortages in products to raise the value (beanie babies, star wars collectibles, particular color tamaguchi, etc.) How many versions of Tatu's album are there? All you need now is NVNB. Do you buy another version with NVNB, or a single, or just download it? Special edition with a DVD? Download or buy? Its too easy to get into a slippery slope argument about how hard must it be to find something before you can justify downloading a copy.
I completely agree the RIAA's bark is worse than their bite. For one thing, it sounds like they are targeting those who are hosting large collections for download, not those who are just downloading.
I also agree that they won't stop file trading. That genie is out of the bottle for good.
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