My daughter's been using Bearshare - a "service" for sharing files, widely used to share music files - and I had my misgivings, but it would seem - see The Register - that it's one of the file sharing media that the copyright police have had in their sights. She'd always said it's legal, but I'm guessing that it's legal in the same way as any writeable CD is legal i.e. it's only when you copy a copyrighted piece of music onto the CD that the offence is committed. Am I correct? Does any Mudcatter know for sure what the position really is?

btw, it's a package to be avoided at all costs unless you like to load up your PC with spyware, adware, Trojans, hi-jacking programs and such like. Which my daughter seems to think is a small price to pay. But even she admits that risking a £2000 fine is extreme.

Anyway, I've decreed it strictly out of bounds.

btw (2) and she only used it on her "own" PC, not this one!