Let's look at the headlines from Net music news. Maestro, hit the rewind:
Responding to pressure from the Recording Industry Association of America, Carnegie Mellon University busted 71 students for collecting and distributing MP3 files, the standard du jour for music pirates on the Internet. Other universities are following suit and monitoring data traffic on school servers
* A privacy advocate revealed that RealNetworks, creator of RealPlayer and RealJukebox, has been collecting data on the listening habits of its users without their permission. The company responded quickly with a mea culpa, a new privacy policy and a software patch, but the damage to its reputation has already been done (yet I have to wonder if the public outcry was partly inspired by paranoid folks worried about collected records of illegal MP3 files on their hard drives.)