pesonally, I believe the RIAA is a bunch of whining babies, all the p2p file sharing does @ least for me, is exposes me to music I would have not have bothered listening to before. Besides, CD sales have gone up. see the story here (granted it's from 2000, but the trend has not died down)

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,35848,00.html

I support the music industry and buy a CD when a band releases something that's not crap. I hate the fact you have to pay 17.99 for a cd that has MAYBE 2 good songs. Besides, look it's cheaper to manufacture cd's then it is to make tapes. So why is it that tapes sell for $5-9, and CD's are $17-23 the quality is not worth the price increase. The Record industry was crying about sales when tape recorders hit the market, saying anyone can record off the radio, or from tape to tape, and it would ruin them. Well, I don't see the artist's starving yet. I think a mutual middle would be good. I would pay for a p2p service that worked with the RIAA so that artists did get paid for what people listen to, and I didn't get ripped off having to buy a cd that has nothing but crap on it, and only one song I liked. Maybe, it will cause musicians to put out something they have to work on, not somthing they just made up while stoned, drunk, or fighting with their dry cleaners.