Where P2P downloading is legal or not is really a matter of the jurisdiction you're in. In Canada it is not illegal as long as you don't try to sell copies. The record companies have tried a number of times to shut it down but the courts here tend to look at it as if you were downloading music to a cassette, like we used to do, or copied a VHS tape. That's what hacks me about all these disclaimers you have to accept and about Microsoft's attempts at playing censor over licences. And I got news for all those recording industry jerks and the rest of these zealots...if I can't get it legally, I can sure get on the net and find a way to do it some other way.