No one here would dispute that filesharing networks are
used by those who would violate copyright. But this is not solely
the domain of P2P; copyrighted software has been traded on electronic
bulletin board systems (BBSs) since their inception and has permeated
every public communication protocol on the Internet. Filesharing is
a social phenomenon, not a technological one - demonizing P2P based
on one use of the technology is a mistake