Its not the same as stealing a yacht, because the owner doesn't lose the yacht. Its like someone cloned his yacht for free and now everyone in the neighbourhood can have yachts. Out there are pirate booksharing groups. They distribute via a variety of methods including p2p. The majority of its users are students looking for hard to find, out of print or limited use texts. Its a free library that helps people learn. People use it even when they have the book legally because its easier to quote from. Should p2p as a technology be killed off because these people are "stealing" hundreds upon thousands of pounds of copyrighted material even though they still obsessively collect their favourite authors, go to book signings and now have a wider range of reading? Should people be monitored on an individual basis and all big file transfers be held under suspicion just in case someone wants to download a song they heard off the radio or an advert on TV? I don't think so. What they should be concentrating on is working for a way in which fans can pay artists back, perhaps access global library of all major record labels in exchange for a yearly sum of money. It'd make marketting much easier and the charts much more accurate.