Sharing of copyrighted songs on p2p was not illegal in Australia. Selling copied songs as in piracy was. But since the recent USA/Australian trade agreement, unfortunately things have changed a little bit. As Sleepless pointed out, check your local laws.

If people can't get copies of copyrighted songs from p2p then they will just copy off the radio (or friends.) Duh! Wake up! Anti p2p sharing laws will make very little difference to them. The recording industry is simply too slow to keep up with new technologies & searching for scapegoats & looking for excuses to explain to their investors, etc. They have been caught out in the dark ages & now crying.

(Wish You Were Here album by P.F. is old but still very valid. lol )