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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (13377)	8/10/2002 11:23:14 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 57684

I do indeed, though I wouldn't d-r-e-a-m of joining the 2,235,130 users on the Kazaa network sharing 361,876,785 files at the moment. Make sure and get a copy of the pop-up stopper freeware because Kazaa stores popups in your system somehow and sneaks them on you when you aren't even using kazaa. I downloaded Grokster to try to avoid this, but they all do it, it seems. If the RIAA can explain to me why each of the Dixie Chicks has less than 1mm$ to show for selling over 300mm worth of CDs I might be more sympathetic to their cause! I really don't get this whole debate. You come from that media industry, how can these people be so dumb. There is no way to stop this and it certainly can be used to the industries' advantage, they can charge a negligible amt for copying files and that would take care of it. I used to buy maybe 5 CDs a year but download 40-50 songs/month some months now. I had a 70s party and downloaded everything, this was muzak from the disco era you couldn't find without napster anyway. I would certainly pay < $1 per song for the ability to legally download, that would take care of this issue wouldn't it? Geez somebody from the RIAA needs to get an MBA. Lizzie