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this week ISP Verizon was obliged to hand over personal details of a customer who the RIAA had identified as downloading MP3 files. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation pointed out today, this blows a Scud through the constitution by permitting "any copyright owner who claims infringement can force an ISP to reveal subscribers' identities merely by obtaining a subpoena from a district court clerk, without any judicial oversight."
In other words, in the best tradition of the Salem witchhunts or the McCarthyite lists, a mere accusation of wrongdoing can land you in the clink.

From The Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28989.html

Please note that altough the RIAA etc is going after mp3 as the bad thing. (which is silly since mp3 is just a file/format/encoding type and legal itself)
It's what music that is downloaded that is the real case...

Music made by local talent etc, or public/free songs stated as such. i.e from artist homepages/record label homepages...
Is ok to download...

I know plenty people dl illegal music thru filesharing and unauthorized websites etc.. So whatch your back out there.

And hey, check out the independed and fre artists out there etc.
www.acidplanet.com www.mp3.com and several more sites has thousands of independent/indy music just as good as latest crap on MTV

Personally I'd prefer to play only indy music on my shows and ditch all commercial stuff.. The cool thing about playing non-commercial music is there is no royalty fees