Halcyon I completely agree, but at the moment the RIAA is going for the clients too, not sure how they can be held responsible. O and they don't all come bundled:
http://p2p.malwareremoval.com/
And are used by Linux users, like myself, when a new version of the OS becomes available. Incidentally the torrent tracker is from the distros site so you know you are getting a legit file. So if the US, or anywhere else, kills off all the clients (unlikely, but may happen) then it will hit the open source community hard, as bandwidth for downloads costs alot of money, and file sharing helps to reduce these costs (and it is quicker). In fact Ubuntu comes with Bittorrent capability built in, so is the OS illegal in the USA because of what the client is capable of doing, instead of what the user does with it?
AntiSilence it just shows how the laws need updating, and how slow the government is at doing this. Cds get scratched etc, and unfortunately the record industry loves deleting things so one cannot replace them, in this instance a backup is the only sensible thing - the same goes for vinyl too