_DODGER, if even a decent percentage of people uesed Kazaa for the purposes you state then people wouldn't get so up in arms but the fact is that it is primarily used for the Illegal distribution of Media be it music, software, or movies as I am sure you are aware. lets not use the hammer metafore but that of a gun, I don't want to ban guns but I damn well would like to see a lock put on every one, so that it can't be used indiscriminatly. Kazaa has no safeguards and there is little so far that can be done about hunting down those who trade in illegal media. hopefully the courts will give a final verdict on the verizon case soon and that will no longer be an issue.