The Recording Industry Association of America — the lobbying group that represents the world's largest music industry corporations — is suing a twelve-year old girl from New York, because she downloaded some songs from the internet. Without using her credit card, presumably.
The music industry still does not get it. The bad press generated by these bullying tactics will make people more determined, not less, to resist paying for downloaded music.
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Here's something to cheer you up (and down) though: the pursuit of happiness has officially been declared futile!
A group of US psychologists suggests (convincingly) that our brains are wired to "miswant" -- that is, to overestimate the effects that imminent decisions will have on our emotional states. A new car won't really make us happy; a break-up won't really be unbearable.
The good news is that things will never turn out as bad as we fear. The bad news is that they will never turn out as good as we hope.
As they said in that movie whose title I can't quite remember: "maybe this is as good as it gets."
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