it's exactly the same thing as home taping, which was also allegedly the scourge of prerecorded music in the '70s and '80s. It actually enabled many people to listen to a wide variety of music, thus promoting the artistes on the tape.
The same discussions are happening over and over again.
First they claim a tape recorder was evil, then the VCR was criminal, and now using P2P makes you an outlaw.
It doesn't stop there. The same discussion with multimedia and violence is going on all over again.
People have called Batman (the series) a bad influence on children, that would make them violent when they grow up. Then it was the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and Power Rangers.
And now it's the video games "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" and "POSTAL 2" that's taking the heat.
The conclusions have been talked about and are the same. But still people tend to forget the past and have the same thing discussed all over again and again.