I agree Jeri & GUEST, once you put something on the internet you are effectively "offering" it for free. Which is why I replaced the full-song MP3s on my website with one-verse "soundbites" as tasters. They can taste for free - the full meal comes with the CD. By the same token, anyone who "offers" something on the Internet without being authorised to do so, is committing a crime - but in our society, they are not "criminals", simply because they cannot be caught.
Yeah, I know my shoe analogy was c**p...the best I could think of at the time:-)
I can't help feeling we are coming to a watershed time as regards distribution, royalties etc. Our administration systems (SOCAN, PRS etc) are geared for a different, older world, where items of physical substance were sold and copying was harder. Technology once more is stretching society's structures, and I for one can't see where it will end up. In any case, I would not support any attempt to clamp down on the technology - but we do need to find new ways to licence use of creative material.