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OK, P2P software sucks, but how much can we expect from companies when they're developing in such a perilous and precarious legal environment?

There must be features which are not being pursued because they would be easy game for Big Brother and his legal henchmen. I'd love to tell my P2P that I want Weird Al's latest album, have the software track and download all of the songs, sort them into the proper order, give them their proper original names, burn the CD, and print a color CD cover identical to the commercial product. Many of these steps have to be disjointed, handled separately for more overt legal reasons.

The entertainment industry perpetuates the myth that P2P makes stealing easy. Baloney. You have to be computer savvy, have the right hardware, have a fast Internet connection and have a TON of time on your hands to do the searching, downloading, organizing, burning and printing.

I'd prefer that the record companies make it easy for me to search and preview their song libraries... and let me pay $1 per song for my personal use (on any device). Offer to burn and ship the CD to me, or let me download it in MP3. I have time for that. I don't have time for P2P.

Unfortunately, if the entertainment industry continues its vilification of P2P and its excessive profits at the expense of the artists, they can expect more and more people to jump the hurdles for P2P.