<p>"I feel sorry for you. You'll never know what it feels like to have access to thousands of movies, books, games, and DVDs for free. It's an incredible feeling, man. Trust me."</p>
<p>I feel rather sorry for you. If you were capable of thinking beyond yourself, you would realize that those movies, books, games and DVDs would not exist if everyone just downloaded everything.</p>
<p>The 1300's self-flagellating monk sternly lectures the merchants living in the newly-developing towns;</p>
<p>"I feel rather sorry for you. If you were capable of thinking beyond yourself, you would realize that showering more than once per year or wearing shoes is sinful, and such goods and luxuries should not exist."</p>
<p>It's cool though monk, you can continue condemning us sinners. Unfortunately, you are a dying breed, and there's already tens of millions of us sinners. </p>
<p>Within a generation or two, downloading from the Internet will become as acceptable and common as listening to the radio on the way to work.</p>
<p>CNet reports this morning that the RIAA has sent letters to 40 University presidents in 25 states warning them about Internet piracy on their university's local area networks.</p>
<p>An RIAA newsletter (4/12/06) reports 405 lawsuits against students at 18 colleges for copyright infringement running I2Hub on their schools Internet2 Network.</p>
<p>The newsletter mentions that the RIAA has evidence of copyright infringement at another 140 schools in 41 states. </p>