If we were to enforce copyright on the internet, some of these ideas and information would not be accessible to everybody, and it should be accessible by all. If we were to allow copyright on the Internet we would be taking our freedom over the direction of the Internet and forfeiting it to big business. This is not something, we as a global society want to do, because we do not have the resources that corporations have to fight any conflicts that may arise over the direction of the Internet. The reason individual users would be forfeiting control to big business is that for many years now, copyright legislation has been drafted by multilateral negotiations among private industries. If private industries had to negotiate with individuals they would always be holding the better hand.
Individual users can ill afford such a mistake.
The sound quality is good, but there is some hollowness in the music. MP3's will improve in sound quality over time. They are easy to download with a 12 to 1 compression, and most are only about 36 megabytes. MP3 is where the conflict festers in the minds of music distribution companies. Music companies feel that downloading music off the net is copyright infringement and violates their companies rights at the foundation by which their companies were founded.