Whatever the morality issues may seem to be, the fact is that many artists have found that their record sales jump when their MP3 are available freely on the web--It may even be that the recent decline in CD sales may be connected to the closing of the main P2P exchanges(the reas that this thread)--


In the end, it may be that the only thing worse than having MP3 files of your music traded on P2P networks is not having MP3 files of your music traded on P2P networks-