I don't understand that no artist in the music industry seems to comment on this ongoing stupidity. Or am I just missing the cry of protest from major bands and singers? I fully understand they want to make money and be rich and wear nice clothes and be decadent in any other way, but putting a person in prison for five years, shouldn't this make them anxious for the potential buyers of their albums? I'm at a total loss.

I appreciate your outrage Michelle, and we need to hear a lot more of it.

The proposed bill is yet another example of Democrats committing political suicide by attacking young people. Pathetic.

The music industry should think up new solutions to make their products more attractive. There'll always be file sharing as long as people don't see good reasons to actually buy an album because of one song they like.

I lately watched a report one a quite successful thing, I think, MAC has started. They sell songs over the Internet for a certain amount of money, and people do use the service.

I've read a very interesting article in a German newspaper on how the income in the book industry has gone down in the US, because so many books are sold low price in supermarkets (that was interesting for a German newspaper, because here a book has to have the same price wherever you buy it). So they sell stuff, but they don't really make money off it. Plus a lot of small bookstores have to close.

So, what has this to do with the RIAA? I'm just trying to understand what's so special about the music industry. Are they're going to close down supermarkets just because they are the end for little bookstores? Because the industry doesn't make as much money as it should?

The market is low everywhere. People keep their money together. Just in the music industry there is supposed to be another one guilty besides global recession. Bullocks.

great point Michelle, it's important to hear some sense from outside the country

The issue as the RIAA seems to turn a blind eye too is not in filesharing but in the lack of quality product. I will continue to share files as I also continue to buy CDs often and all the time.

I use my program to sample music and weed out the non-quality babble that nowadays floods the airwaves and I purchase what I like. The RIAA may feel free to sue me for the 284 songs I currently have in my library and I will gladly pay the going rate for single prices per song if they will in turn reimburse me for the 423 full length compact discs I have purchased that were, for a lack of a better term, garbage.

If I have to continue changing my peer to peer program so be it. The means justifies the ends and quite frankly the more the RIAA challenges the consumers the more of a losing battle this will become for them.

Invest those millions of dollars that will be wasted on frivolous lawsuits in scouting actual talent, production and growth for the millions of undiscovered and/or underrated artists out there.