LaLa: The Logical Solution to File Sharing

Filesharing has become extremely prevalent amongst modern society. Users download tons of songs through p2p services like torrent services, Limewire, and so on. Yet this is killing the music industry. Every song downloaded through these networks is another stolen song from the record labels and the artists. While I couldn't give a fuck less about the major record industries making more money, the fact remains that this is still stealing music, and I'm sure it is felt much more by the indie labels that so many of us love and cherish. Luckily, fans of these labels are more likely to buy cds or vinyl than other fans, but it's still painful to the wallets of these label owners and indie artists that we all want to prevail. In addition, RIAA sues tens of thousands of internet users for downloading illegally. Supposedly file sharing is dropping, from 20 something percent of internet users to now closer to 16, but that is a ridiculous amount of illegal downloading. I mean, 16% of internet users??? That's an absurd number of people. It's about time the record companies cashed in on this - in a way. A new music service, LaLa, allows users to make a free account. Members can then listen to every song in their database, and with over 6000000 songs, including 150000 indie labels, that packs quite a punch. After one free listen, you can add songs to your library and stream them as much as you want for 10 cents, or buy the songs for anywhere from 79 to 99 cents. I've seen quite a bit of bad press about it, and I'm not really sure why... it seems a competitor tried to argue that LaLa strips you of your music rights when it puts them in your library online -which is true, in a way. You can't do anything with the online songs besides listen to them through LaLa. However, if you aren't a dumbass, you won't delete all your music after uploading. That way you'll still have all your music with full rights. If anyone reads this, check out LaLa! And tell your friends! It's really a great service, but for some reason is having trouble attracting the number of users of other similar services like Rhapsody and iTunes - which aren't nearly as good, by comparison.