Now, there's a big hoo-haa on music downloads again. It surfaced every now and then to scare people. This is the fault of technology and I don't think it can be solved so easily. My take on this is that, yes, one fine day you may actually stop every single person from downloading free. But how do you prevent people from sharing their music? If I buy a CD, I lend it to my friend, will I be charged of sharing music? If this is my CD, my friend ripped it into her PC, isn't this sharing music as well? So if we do not use peer to peer systems, I send my friend a song thru MSN or Skype, will I be charged? Just wana say you can control the downloads by imposing fine or jail term, will you be able to control who shares music with one another? Will you be able to control the types of free softwares that are going around that can actually enable us to record music even if you encrypt the CD? Will you be able to control us from recording music from FM radios through the free softwares? Don't forget that without these downloading, how can MP3 players be selling like hotcakes? Who in these days still buy a Discman or Walkman? They have all been phased out with the pace of technology today. How many people can afford to buy a CD for $20+ just to listen to 1 or 2 songs, bearing in mind that not every song in the album will suit that individual? Thus, we can see that TECHNOLOGY causes a whole chain of problems yet we are so reliant that we can't do without with, what an irony! *Laughs off*

** Disclaimer: The above are all my personal discretion and perceptions.