http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/w...19821-2002Dec20 :
[snip] Kazaa has become so popular so fast that a coalition of entertainment companies has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, seeking to shut it down. The coalition says the service has become a "candy store of infringement," where millions of pirated copies of songs, writings, TV shows and motion pictures are available to anyone, free. [snip]
Rather than saying that Kazaa allows for the free exchange of ideas and files (as it does, solely), some of which happen to be the "intellectual property" of someone else, these groups are saying that all this stuff is free, and that's the poroblem. I find that rediculous. Nearly as rediculous at 19 dollars for 10 cents worth of plastic called a CD, 95% of which will never be seen by the artist.