now that a lot of you have mp3 players (iPods in particular), you can buy single tunes off iTunes or go to an artists website or fan sites and download free songs.
i manage an unsigned music band and feel that file sharing helps unsigned bands but only those kind of bands. if you go onto file sharing networks and download signed artists, to me thats wrong because there is several legal ways to get one song from a signed artist without having to steal it. i also find it hard to say its not stealing.