... at the end of the day, filesharing is here to stay. End of story.

As soon as the powers that be get their arses into gear, legislate against it and then block whatever service is flavour of the month, another one (or six) will rise in it's place. This has been happening on and off for the last 7 or 8 years - all the while giving massive amounts of publicity to the various filesharing networks.

First it was Napster, then it was Audiogalaxy, then it was KaZaA, then Soulseek... the new champions are the truly distributed models like BitTorrent, eDonkey etc... all the while IRC bot networks have been bubbling away too.

It's like some massive field exercise in irony, and it's beyond a joke now.