And the reason corporate ethics is a contradiction is that the corporation exists only to make money for their shareholders and will not budget for their suppliers to pay a fair wage unless it is financially beneficial to do so.

Great point, I share this view and have never understood why we have a conservative government when the majority of Canadians are left leaning and a majority of our votes go to leftist parties. As much as I agree with the principals of the greens, pirates etc they are siphoning off votes from parties which have a chance at being elected. This is similar to the situation where the votes Ralph Nader received running for the greens were more than enough to tip the scales against Bush.

I and many people I know stopped storing mp3s and now use only streaming audio sites a la grooveshark. Also long time lurker's first post on /.