I don't think he should blame p2p programs; it's the new file traders he doesn't like. Instead of a small group of music lovers trading on IRC now you have tens of millions of people trying to grab as much loot as they can. The comaraderie is still there if you want it; look at the eDonkey servers, forums, and hotlink sites not to mention the rooms and channels on WinMX and Soulseek...it's like IRC on a much larger scale.
As far as the makers of the programs not respecting the users, most don't have spyware and even if they do there are members of the "community" who can remedy that.
Download speeds are fine too-with Kazaa++ you can get max speeds without too much effort and on something slow like eMule just queue up a bunch of dvd rips and albums and come back a day or 2 later and you'll have what you want.
His attitude smacks of a kind of I miss the good old days/elitism that's out of place - so many ppl have computers now that things invariably had to change.
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