While I think stealing music is wrong in of it self, some of these companies are pure evil. I hope stealing of music gets so bad they go bankrupt (it wont happen but they deserve it). They screw over the artist as well as the consumers and take a maximum profit at any cost approach which is just wrong. Going into schools trying to convince children to turn in there parents is wrong and sick. Using virus like software to protect content is wrong. Extorting money from people that cannot afford to defend themselves reguardless of guilt is wrong. Doing everything you can to fight against people even being able to fairly use the content they have paid to use is wrong. Forcing manufactures to incorperate technology in their hardware, and then make the consumer pay for it in the cost of the product is wrong. The list of horible things that they have done is endless, and if they have sued people who are dead, then it is obvious that some of the people that they acuse are not guilty. You might not agree with everything I have said, but you have to admit they are not very moral when it comes to their relentless greedy quest for more money. While stealing content in of it self is wrong, these people don't deserve a penny in reward to their actions. The more money they have, the more money they have to use against those of us that would just like to use the content we have paid for, and would like to be able to use the hardware we purchase as it was designed to work. I realize not all media companies are like this, but for the ones that are, they don't deserve anything. Its not like much of it is going to go to the artists that created the content anyway.
Just my opinion.