These methods aren't going to make people share music less -- it will simply make them find more secure ways of sharing.  Lets all remember, that at the end of the day, if I burn a few gigs of MP3s to a dvd and pass it to a friend hand to hand, the music industry will never know.<p>Ultimately, sharing is something people want to do as a natural inclination.  I like this band, so I want you to like this band, so here's their music.  I personally have found the vast majority of the music I love in this fashion.<p>I love passing on my love of music to other people.  I've run private MP3 servers before. It brings me much joy to share music and then talk about it.<p>I don't really know what these large verdicts do.  They are still effectively like being hit by lightning, it's so unlikely it will happen to you.