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Unfortunately, it is human nature to want to take advantage of a situation. However, when other's hard work and/or creativity are at stake, it is unconscionable to go against the American work ethic. Those who put forth prosper; those who try to steal from them ought to fry (no whining allowed).

Ture audiophiles are not going to copy music. We want the original.

Its ridiculous to punish everyone for the crimes of a few.

Being a little cautious, or even suspicious, is understandable, but they overdo it.

With the proliferation of CD-RW units in both home stereos and computers, the recording industry's fat cats are certainly justified in fearing piracy. It already exists to a large extent with CDs! The piracy, however, exists mostly among non-audiophiles, and whatever financial losses they might suffer from piracy, the industry clearly isn't hurting. It's greed and--typical of today--an overblown sense of entitlement that makes them so fearful.

They don't understand that what they are missing out here is great promotion. People will still buy CD's because we like to own objects and not everybody lives through their computer. The number of downloads through Napster is meaningless because tons of it is just kids playing a game of "I have more gigs of mp3's than you" and downloads do not translate into lost sales. These guys do not understand technology. Nothing is happening here that didn't happen with cassettes and blank VHS tapes. In fact the translation to sales is even higher with the advent of the internet because there is deeper access to the materials moreso than with the arbitrariness with TV and radio.

This need no further comment

The only winners are their lawyers.

I would welcome any new equipment which makes me love music even more than I already do,but wars between recording industries are BS.

It doesn't matter whether the music industry is legally right or not. The real issue is that in the near future artists are going to realize that they no longer need the Sony Musics of the world when they can record and sell their music to the public with no help from a third party. The "music industry" can see the handwriting on the wall and it is scaring them stiff. In the past they were able to foist off bad music on the public because of the control that they had over how the public was able to obtain product. Now bands without record deals can obtain recognition thru the Internet and sell their music, bypassing industry creations like In Sync and Britney Spears. It won't be long before Sony will have to go back to making electronics for a living since they won't be getting a cut as a middleman in the music business.