I do not like the idea of a tax that goes to organisations I do not approve of being changed to cover the cost of me doing something I never do. First of all while I do make fairly heavy use of the internet and a fair bit of use of P2P networking, I do not pirate software so why should I pay a tax. Secondly the cash collected by the various royalties organisations goes to record companies, not artists. Artists do get their bite of the cake sure, but it is a pretty small bite. I do agree that artists do deserve to be payed for their work and even record companies deserve to get some cash for supporting and promoting artists, but there are other ways to do this. In any event I am far from convinced that people downloading stuff via P2P has a significant effect on the cash that artists receive. All the evidence suggests that people with MP3 players not only download stuff, they also BUY more music, so they are still contributing a fair ammount of cash to the artists and record companies.