"Singing Happy Birthday is illegal"
As Dicken's noted, the law has always been an ass.
When you sit down to Monopoly you sometimes renegotiate a rule or two by mutual agreement, but most of the rules are set by the manufacturer.
Society is a bit like that - we didn't get to make the vast complex web of rules that govern us, we just get to tinker democratically with a few things at the edge while the manufacturers continue to make most of the important decisions. Most people just ignore the rules that they do not agree with and hope that they do not get caught..... unfortunately, as with drug laws, if there is a significant minority that does not agree with the law, these people begin to collect to gether and separate from the mainstream in many other ways creating what we often call a "subculture". Thus the drug subcultures, the peer to peer subcultures etc. that danger for society is that many other influences and opportunists also work within these subcultures and the outcomes are often unpredictable and socially divisive and damaging(e.g. crime, lack of compliance and trust of police etc, lack of regard for other laws etc).
Thus the need to work to oppose laws that are flouted openly (and has socially accepted) OR to change the social acceptance (as has been done in my generation with drink driving).
I think that the possibly of changing the social acceptance of music sharing is very unlikely..... sounds more like alcohol prohibition than drink driving.
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