Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
As I said in an earlier post, I am conflicted, and this is why. Corruption does not justify theft. But something really has to be done about the corruption, especially when theft is so widespread.
Well, I think we can agree that suing your customers is a pretty dumb way of handling the problem. Records companies as they're currently constituted are dinosaurs (leeches?) that serve no real purpose. I also tend to think that their losses due to illegal downloads are overstated. I haven't done the research, mind you, but I'd guess the majority of people who download music illegally wouldn't have bought the CDs anyhow.

I think their real problem is that the record companies are providing goods and services that people don't want anymore and instead of adapting they'd rather blame the scary 'interweb' and try to sue people into buying their crap.