Internet music piracy is riding at record levels and is set to rise as newly emboldened consumers revolt against high online prices and controversial technology designed to prevent digital bootlegging. To me, the battle over music piracy is like the war on drugs: You can’t win it, but you can fight it forever, and spend millions on the battle. We all come from different walks of life and represent many different points of views. However, we all agree about this: whether you’re talking about using peer-to-peer services like Kazaa or LimeWire to “share” digital music files with millions of people on the Internet or about compiling a collection of your favorite songs and then using a CD burner to make copies for all your friends, copying and distributing copyrighted music without permission is ILLEGAL!
Keith Urban, Grammy Award Nominee for Best Country Instrumental Performance: “Downloading can be a great way to share music, but downloading music illegally threatens the future of everyone that depends on you for their livelihood. Get music the right way! If you download, do it legally!”
The rules are very simple. Unless you own the copyright, it’s not yours to distribute.
So tell me what would you do if the Music Industry depended on you to stop music piracy?
Rythem Malice 
well i got to agree with you that downloading musics from the net is not that good for the music industry because by doing this the cd’s are not being sold and this wil make the artist to be down in the sense that they income and money spent to produce their records will be affected very badly and this discourages the artists to get more involve in the msic industry so if the music industry depends on me to stop all this piracy and so on i would surely discourage my friends and people i know from downloading the songs via limewire or so on….
If i will be the last person on this Earth and whole music industry will depends on me,i promise i will stop burning CD’s for my friends!!!
But seriously I think you are absolutely right,the problem with the music piracy have been going on for so long and it is still one of major problems for music industry..i dont think there is a good solution for this problem,but yet again,music industry can fight,for example by introducing new much stricker policies and copy right laws..
the article is revealing a truth, but it agains depend on when we come to the practical side. it is easy for any one to say that violating the copyright is illegal and it is not fair and so on but the fact is that when when the person come to see one of hits favorite music available, he would try to get it in any means, and some times he may dont even care about the legal or the way of getting it. this is one of the act that i have felt, however this may lead the industry to a weak situationand thus in future days it would affect the same people who are interested in music. so i think it is better to stop violating the rules for a better future and more collection of music in coming days…
i support piracy!
piracy is cheap, so y not?