Methinks the whole idea is, well, pretty retarded. Not that I condone the piracy but, think about it: the "new and improved" Napster and Napster-like entities charge you for listening to music online. Big deal! If you have a fat pipe and don't care for eating up your bandwidth (if your ISP has restrictions) then you can try Iceberg dot com, for FREE.

So, they charge you for downloads is Canada?!? If you follow the news, you'd know that, if you live in Canada, there was a court ruling on March 31, 2004, that made it LEGAL for you to share files online! At least for the time being (so why would you pay for it?)
BTW, all these places that charge you for sharing/downloading, they tell you that it is legal yet, if you bother to read their "fine print", they make it perfectly clear that they are "not responsible for the nature of the files you share/download by using their service". In other words, if you share copyrighted music, you are still in violation of the copyright and that makes this sharing illegal, non? But their hands are clean... so if you get sued, they are "not responsible" and you're on your own, buddy.

In my opinion, if you insist on sharing whatever files you want to keep sharing, don't bother paying for the scumware-laden software to do so as that is one big ripoff. Get WinMX - the real one which is still FREE and has no spywarez built-in; the best one I've ever used! www dot winmx dot com