Hmm, do you know anything about what gnutella is??? Well, it doesn't sound as if you do. Gnutella does not have a central server, so it cannot be shut down. It makes everyones individual computer a server, and the only thing the record companies could do is possibly try to convince the gov't that this software itself should be illegal. Now I think we should all know that is not going to happen. They can't very well march into all of the probably millions of gnutella users houses and demand that they erase it. That would be ridiculous to even try. Anything that doesn't have a "gnutella" label is what you should be worried about. Napster is being shut down because they actually have something TO shut down. All of those other non-gnutella clients are going to be next. Gnutella cannot be stopped.