yeah true but point is napster is a great original concept ie that of point to point sharing, i would nealy put this up there with the hyperlink.
if a law can be passed stopping me from giving you mp3s (and vice versa) and can be justified then this leaves the door open to all sorts of things like whether i can email you in privacy or not.
Already these things have been called into question and for example in France they have had to pass a law saying emails are private and no company has the right to read ether their employees mails or anyone else's unless addressed to them, yet in England from what i hear from a friend of mine its in fact heading the other direction and where he works mails are being monitered.
I know the court case is not being fought on the p to p sharing but the copyright of the artist, but before Napster ever existed people were taping music and passing it to their friends and there is nothing illegal in this unless you are doing it in mass and to you own profit -- so where lies the difference here?? 

Garrett Lynch
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