Are you a "heavy trader"? - Consider this: Under a bill approved yesterday by a House committee, if you have over 1,000 mp3s in a folder on your computer (as the average college student typically does), and that folder is ever shared, even briefly, using Kazaa or similar peer-to-peer software, you have committed a federal criminal offense punishable by jail time. No tolerance? Let's call it no intelligence.

Meanwhile, Ben came across this story touting a sophisticated new study by a Harvard Business School prof which suggests that downloading doesn't hurt record sales one iota. Just makes all that legislatin' and crim'nalizin' seem especially silly.