Music Industry and File Sharing

http://www.cmw.net/2002/conference/Recordschedules.html
I've got passes and can probably sneak myself into these but the ones on file sharing look too painful. I'm interested in attending just to see how far off in space the panelists are.

Examples of topics include:
"There's a generation of young people growing up with the view that they don't have to pay for music any more," says President Brian Robertson of the Canadian Recording Industry Association. To that end, the industry is going to the source of the bleeding with a program for high-schoolers titled "The Value Of Music." It’s an ad hoc ethics-meets-math class that breaks down the costs above and beyond the manufacturing cost of a CD. Join Industry consultant Julie Ann May, President, Reddington Communications, as she presents the research behind the plan to quietly educate kids about the damage that could be done to their future enjoyment of music." [This may be informative I hate to conced]
OR
Online music swapping and subscription services have hurt the music industry. But no group has taken it on the chin as much as the Internet's CD merchants, whose online turf is being increasingly overrun by free music. North American online sales of all products have grown this year at a pace of 30 percent while online music sales plummeted by 39 percent in this year's third quarter. Will online subscriptions or downloads be the dominant form of revenue for the online music industry? Will DVD's replace CDs? E-tailing experts explore the future of the online business model for music retail.

Should I even bother?