Janis Ian wrote an article about music copying and downloading, now published on her Web site. The article is written from the point of view of a recording artist, but she does a good job of looking at larger issues. I like her point that it's the hypocrisy of the labels that she most objects to, that they're trying to protect artists and consumers, when mostly they're trying to protect their own asse(t)s. Janis puts her money where her mouth is, posting MP3s of her songs for downloading.