How do I protect my Songs?

[cidvalue]

Yes, you are correct. In an ideal world this WOULD be the case. And I'm all for it. But now, let's get back to reality.

Does anyone know how to protect the songs in an external hard drive? I've noticed that there are some software that can make a hard drive read only. Has anyone used it with any degree of success?

I'm pretty sure some creative KJ have done it before although it may be unorthodox to admit it.

There is a guy, for example, called Boogie Man, down here in South Florida, that has a large network of KJs leveraging his original library of songs and making some serious money. My question is, how does he prevent his network from copying all of his songs? And trust me, it is not just him doing it. In practice I see this happening everywhere. If you tell me that YOU haven't seen this happening with KJs in your block, you're lying or blind.

So before we embark into a moral debate of what's right and what's not, let's try to focus on the issue at thand on this thread. My original question was, has anyone here been successful in accomplishing the task of protecting their songs from their network? And if so, How?

Thanks to all the other suggestions on the subject.