It would seem that the RIAA may be off base in their allocation of blame towards P2P file sharing.
This is certainly no surprise to those of us whose mp3 collection has at one time contained a Spice Girls song, or a Britney tune. We would never have bought those albums, in fact in many cases after we have gotten over whatever complex societal influences which caused such an aberration as the listening to of that music, we deleted the mp3. Mainly to hide our shame.
Point being, no money lost to the record industry because we weren't about to go out in public, pick up one of those CD's walk up to the check-out in front of witnesses and plunk down cash for them. On an embarrassment scale of a personal level we would probably prefer to find a busy street corner, stand up on a soapbox and proclaim our confusion as to which brand of anti-itch cream is better for our personal discomfort, or to admit in similar locations to our inability to restrain ourselves in intimate circumstances. To repeat, we weren't about to do it.
What I liked was that there is a correspondence in the other direction. That we dl music, listen to it and think, `I like that.' Whereupon we go out and buy the CD, or better yet for the artist, we go to see a concert of theirs. Which is of course where they make a greater proportion of their money.
Anyways, off to listen to my mp3s.
No Spice Girls or Britney songs were listened to, downloaded, erased or found during the writing of this post. Thank you.