An academic in Japan who wrote an anonymous P2P program could end up in jail for up to three years. While I don't neccesarily think that downloading copyrighted material like music for free is a good thing, writing a tool that might allow people to do such is not at all a bad thing. You can kill someone with a hammer, so should we jail the people that make hammers? Of course not. The internet is too big, and too anonymous, for governments to continue to do this sort of thing. And there will only be more of it as the world becomes more internet-adept. Theere will be uses that no one has even thought of today, and along with those uses will come the possibility of what some might consider illegal activity. We cannot, however, deny the existence of such tools, even if they might have illegal uses. The worst thing governments can do is stifle any sort of innovation on the internet, because they could be stifling ideas that could change the human race as we know it. Some might say that's not a bad thing, they like the human race the way it is. I disagree, and feel humanity has a lot of growing and evolving to do, and we ought to embrace such growth. The last ten years, thanks to computers and the internet, have changed the world economy more in a 10 year span than any other invention in history has done in 50 years. With new advances like nanotechnology and bioengineering, you will see even more changes over the next 10 years. Don't stifle, encourage! See where these things lead us. Like gun bans, stifling new techonolgy and innovation will simply put the new tools in the hands of criminals, leaving law abiding citizens of overly-controlling governments in the lurch.