Since Thursday last, I have bought and paid for at least 10 CD's. including one by the above mentioned Nic Jones--I resent any implications that I am a thief, and particularly any intimations that I am less than honest about this(or anything else)--

That said, I will re-assert, I have a legal right to fair use of any and all recorded materials that I own, and your opinions about stealing and rights and all, really don't apply to fair use-Even the RIAA acknowleges that copying and related fair use of the copied material is acceptable--

I have been following the Napster legal issues since they initially emerged, and the discussion that has been put forth here does not relate to those issues, and, as a matter of fact, the issues that the plaintiffs have filed against Napster haven't even been set out here--

And Bill, a performing artist doesn't necessarily have any control of either commercial distribution or commercial use of their work--let alone the fair-use personal use that indiviuals may excercise--