ok under definition it's just the music that is protected by the RIAA....forgot what their name means...but they're just there to protect against piracy and they are the ones that are prosecuting people who illegaly download stuff...they tried to shut down all p2p programs by saying that they also distribute child pornography...that was thrown out..then in december of 2003 they were told they could not use people's names in court...now they just call them john doe and use their ip address..atleast that's the info i got from a site....and yes people download it anyways...almost everything i download is or should be protected...and either i read wrong or somthing but the RIAA protect only gold and platinum albums and singles...and i'm pretty sure that's not right cuz it doesn't make sense but that's also what it said on this page.