My brother-in-law just call to direct me to www.riaa.org & to www.boycott-riaa.com

I've never used Kazza or other similar sites & I don't know if the kids do (I suspect they might) but the RIAA wants to now, legally, invade my PC, violate my privacy, & come after my meger earnings if my kids did download any music. I do believe all artists should be paid for their work but are the artists (espically the small guys) getting their due from the industry that feeds off their backs, I don't think so. Example, Green Linett refuses to pay their artists. Some friends (the group the Battering Ram) who recorded an LP for Rounder yrs ago have not seen a penny from the release of their LP on CD & said none of us can afford to go after what's owed them (they can't even get a free copy of their own CD they'd have to pay twice what I'd pay if they did (once for the CD & again by losing royalties). These are just a few of the real small companyies in the recording industry what about the industry as a whole where only the major artists have the money & whereall to recover what's theirs. With the average CD bring in about $1.50 US (please correct me if I'm wrong) to the artist it seems that the artist gets the shaft all around. I buy CD's (my budget keeps that to a min) but am I better off buying direct from the artist's web site in a small effort to contribute to choking to death these vultures & boycott anything that supports these Artistic vampires (Sandy & Dick can you offer of your insites into this).As it stands now the copyright laws are killing not inhancing our cultural output while driving potential artists into other occupations or starving them out of existence. Their are boycotts being orginized along with other forms of protest. I can't believe that some law makers (Dem's) are asking for jail sentences for downloading & fines up to $150,000 for violations while trying to cap off a death cause by malepractice at $250,000, something's askew with our whole system. So what's a music lover supposed to do with out hurting the artist themselves?

Barry