I'm sure as soon as the RIAA put out a press release that clarifies or contradicts their earlier statements, the "journalists" will print that without comment or analysis too.

Judge Judy is a bad choice there - she tends to go for the quick, harsh, and "obvious" (including a very strong implication that you are a fuckwit for thinking any differently) solution. That is very likely to be "don't steal songs". Do you think Judge Judy will recognize any human need for music?

If that isn't good enough, do without. Just because you want it doesn't mean *anyone* is under any obligation to make it available to you. It isn't ethics; it's the free market, stupid. There are lots of books from those in current publication to those written by authors long dead that aren't available as an eBook. Just because you want one of those in an eBook format doesn't somehow justify pirating a copy; nor does it justify pirating the book in question. Back atcha. Just because you want money for every single copy doesn't mean *anyone* is under any obligation to give you money when they can make a copy without involving you. That would be the 'free market' in action: the natural cost of distribution is zero, and propping it up above zero--particularly with legislation, something the typical libertard otherwise equates with scabies--is the interference with the market's actions. It's not the 'pirate' (a stupid term propagated by stupid people - copyright violators do not normally interfere with commercial shipping) who is obliged to justify his action of copying, it's the copyright holder who is obliged to justify why preventing copying is a better thing for the economy as a whole. (Which can never be done, and therefore, copyright holders will tend to fall back on whining, tattling, and pulling at the skirts of the legislature.) Grow up and quit whining that the world doesn't give you everything you want. If you can't see which side is simply doing what the technology allows, and which side is whining that advancing technology is interfering with their vast desire for precious precious money, it's you who needs to do some growing up.

I don't know if you libertards are just unbelievably stupid or are intentionally lying, but I'm inclined to think it's the latter. The natural state of commerce, in the unregulated 'free' market, is to form monopolies of various kinds, and suppress--brutally, if need be--any and all threats to that monopoly power. The failure of government to properly restrain this tendency, thanks to billions of dollars of lobbying spent on lying to the American public (like you) to the effect that "Jesus loves rich people and wants you to be one, so you should let corporations do whatever they like" is the primary cause of the USA's present troubles. Small business is good capitalism; big business is worse than communism, because at least under communism, there's a basic pretense of working for the good of equal fellow men, rather than to further enrich people who are already richer than you or I could possibly become in a dozen lifetimes.

Depends whether or not you want me to kill you and take your stuff.