I actually feel kinda cool for having the day of silence also be my birthday (not trying to get any mileage off my birthday, just sayin!)
Also, the RIAA is fighting a worthy battle. The effects of the internet have already been documented as taking a toll on the music industry at a catastrophic level!
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28467
LOS ANGELES–MP3 piracy of copyrighted music claimed another victim Monday, when the emaciated body of rock-rap superstar Kid Rock was found on the median of La Cienega Boulevard.
"How many more artists must die of starvation before we put a stop to this MP3 madness?" asked Hilary Rosen, president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). "MP3s of Kid Rock's music were so widely traded and downloaded online that he was driven back to the mean streets from whence he came, dying bankrupt and penniless in the gutter."...