Meeting people online is easy, cheap and non-threatening. Avoid it like the plague. You need to get out of your comfort zone to meet people. If you're shy, take baby steps - make small talk with the old lady on the bus, chat with your supermarket check-out girl. Then read "Rules of the Game" - a 30 day series of "field missions." to gradually overcome your fears and shyness. Can't recommend this enough. Jeff

..yet the P2P networks are so busy...what gives? Is all modern music shit, or are you self-justifiing?

"Besides, if 95% of music downloads were illegal, that's a pretty strong argument that downloading music should be legalized" As should adware and spyware then also be legalised. After all you can't stop it, so it must be morally right eh?. I hear the same excuses from the adware people:

Ah, no. Perhaps try reading the article. His point is that DRM delays the crackers. Even a few days of exclusivity increases the game's early sales.