[Build a better mousetrap, and summons-carrying messengers of the courts will beat a path to your door] It looks like KaZaA is going to get slapped with a lawsuit by Big Media. KaZaA and others have created a revolutionary new communications network which could be applied in thousands of different scenarios. The only problem is that they've slighted a wealthy dinosaur of an industry who has made their fortune by price-fixing their product and thereby defrauding consumers, so they'll likely get bullied out of existence. Record companies have utterly failed to change with the times and meet the challenge of new technologies and means of distribution, choosing instead to insist that you pay for music that you already own again and again. Your individual rights will probably also be a victim of this lawsuit. Interested in your rights as an artist? Feel free to send a letter to the RIAA and request an individual membership, since they ostensibly are guarding the 'rights' of 'artists'. At this time, an overwhelming majority of artists producing written, recorded, or visual content are individuals who are not represented by a major recording label, so it only makes sense that in the spirit of 'artists' rights', the RIAA must be devoting a majority of their time to the individual artists concerns, right? Wrong. The RIAA doesnt accept individual artists. They don't care about you or your rights. They care about huge media corporations who want to interpret, or worse, ignore, the Bill of Rights to their financial benefit. You'll have to form a corporation to join. You even have to send your membership requests via snail-mail (What else? These people positively hate technology) on corporate letterhead. Once you do, your dues will run $10,000/year. Exersize your freedom of speech while you still have it: laugh in Hillary Rosen's face every time she uses the word 'rights'.