We're going back to 2004.

It's time for one more thing.

Armstrong and Getty.

One more thing.

Okay.

Anybody that's been listening to Joe and Jack over the years knows that they're both big music lovers.

And I was going through the archives, and I found an interesting piece from 2004.

It deals with the, now, let me get this right, R-I-A-A, the Recording Industry Association of America.

And back in 2004,

file sharing, free file sharing, that is, became very, very popular, and the RIA decided to do something about it, and they decided to sue 532 people.

Believe it or not, there was a lot of dispute over whether or not you should be able to download music for free or share with your friends for free.

A lot of people felt like, hey, it's my music, I can share it with whoever I want to.

So let's go back to 2004 because this was a really interesting topic.

It shows you where we were as far as downloading music.

A lot of people thought that it should be perfectly legal,

then other people thought, no, you should have to pay for it.

It was like a 50-50 split.

At this time, the music industry was trying

to stop the new technology, but as we know, the new technology won out. And Joe and Jack at

the time had some very interesting thoughts on this topic. You know what the RIAA is? I do. It's the

Recording Industry Association of America. And in its largest round of lawsuits, the recording industry has sued 532 unnamed people.

Where do they find these people whose parents didn't even have the common decency to give them a moniker, these unnamed people?

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