Well, according to the law, a lot of people are due to head on down to the slammer. Hey, what else is new?

"I'm not joking. An obscure law called the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act that former U.S. President Bill Clinton signed in 1997 makes peer-to-peer (P2P) pirates liable for $250,000 in fines and subject to prison terms of up to three years. (You may want to read it, since you'll likely be hearing more about it soon.) "

So now if you've used Napster, Kazaa, Morpheus, BearShare, LimeWire, AudioGalaxy, or any other P2P sharing software to "share" your music with other music fans, you could be next on the trip to the slammer! Hmmm... I wonder if IRC file sharing would be considered a P2P network? Anyway:

"A quick check of Kazaa on Friday afternoon showed that there were 4.1 million users online, sharing some 800 million files. The odds of any specific person getting busted are pretty low, but someone's going to be a test case. Got your lawyer ready? "

Exactly - who's going to be the test case?