While doing a google search for downloadable music, www.mp3musiq.com came up. Wow! What a find! Download millions of songs and movies... all my favorites... FOR FREE!... at least according to the website.

The come on is almost irresistable, isn't it? All your favorite songs and movies that you have to pay for everywhere else are available for a real cheap membership.

But, I didn't buy. I googled the URL and ended up here. What an eye opener. I sampled several of the blacklisted sites. The come on is the same... free downloads of your "favorite" movies and songs. These b@stards really ought to be tied to a post and shot.

But then again, five bucks says that the majority of the suckers weren't looking to download my videos of my vacation in Greece. Nor were they trying to download my brother's original guitar compositions (which, by the way, are very good). No, they were looking for ways to avoid paying for copyrighted materal. Thus, it is the greed of those that want something for nothing that keeps the scammers in business. Free music! Free movies! The Nigerian 419 scammers should have been so clever to come up with this one.

Now certainly there are some that use the P2P network for legitimate, legal downloads, but I cannot help but believe that those who get sucked into the scams (all 22 pages of them as of this writing) were looking for something for nothing... a way to get copyrighted material that would otherwise have to be paid for. They've been suckered by the promise on every one of the scam sites... download millions of movies and songs.

So, while I have sympathy for those that have lost their money, I see a great balance in the universe: Those that would cheat the copyright holders by buying into the scam websites' promises are in turn cheated. All is well in the universe.

Flame on brothers and sisters. My flame suit is zipped up.

Cheers.