Great article by sci-fi writer Orson Scott Card, called MP3s Are Not the Devil. Excerpts:

In other words, the people complaining about all the internet “thieves” are, by any reasonable measure, rapacious profiteers who have been parasitically sucking the blood out of copyrights on other people’s work.

…I basically replaced all my vinyl records and cassette tapes with CDs, and then replaced all our VHS tapes and laserdiscs with DVDs. The record companies and studios would have laughed if somebody said, “This is just an upgrade. I should be able to turn in my vinyl and cassettes for CDs and my videotapes for DVDs, for no more than the actual cost of production.” Ha ha ha ha ha.

…If you got together with a few of your neighbors and each of you bought different CDs and then lent them to each other, that wouldn’t even violate copyright.

One of the best article I’ve read about the subject.

There’s this too: News article about how use of file-sharing programs declined only by 5% during the worst of the RIAA media/legal blitz. Yay America! Keep on keepin on!