“Facing the threat of a legal crackdown against people who swap songs online, the head of the parent of file-sharing software Morpheus on Thursday promised to launch a lobbying campaign in the U.S. Congress. ”
“The record industry called (peer-to-peer) users pirates, but what these people are are hundreds of millions of voters,” said Michael Weiss, chief executive of Los Angeles-based StreamCast.
“At the end of next month, we’re going to be involved in helping to mobilize P2P users around the world and ultimately around the globe to ensure that their voices are heard,” he said.
- Reuters
And so it begins, the masses will fight back with their voting power 
. Just as others have mentioned there’s “safety” in numbers from the RIAA, to the contrary… rather than try to be safe we should all be proactive or else this will only continue to limit the technology we’ve all embraced, let along privacy rights.
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