There is something that I find incredibly mystifying about the entire chain of 
events from Napster to the present. This entire scenario has played out before.

RIAA Sequentially Repeating Edison’s Mistakes

Edison more or less invented the whole movie industry, and he tried doing to that what the RIAA is trying to do with the music industry. He failed miserably. I’m waiting for this whole mess to blow up in RIAAs face. Only time will tell.