The biggest gang of thieves and genuine pirates any artist will ever encounter is the music business itself.
How tiny a percentage do they thing is ‘normal’!?
Court case after court case told us all about their greed and staggeringly unreasonable conditions.

Sharing is not the problem and never has been – though they’ve been pushing that lie since the days of the compact cassette and home taping.

In fact sharing has always generated interest & sales…..or at least it used to until those greedy swines tried to get us all to replace our existing record collections with expensive CD.
Once the means was available to get digital copies then not surprisingly many of the public turned their back and started burning their own – and often thanks to hardware from the very same companies.

When someone like Sony claims P2P is killing music isn’t it a little hypocritical coming from a company that makes burners and blank media to do it on?

Anyways, bands are learning to release under their own steam.

Those who questioned Radioheads example of allowing consumers to give mere pennies if they wanted (whilst the consumer paid for all the overheads re internet connection = distribution & any CD burning & label printing) forget that whilst some have only paid pennies that was all they ever got from the record companies on each sale.
They made a lot more money doing it all themselves (and they will not be alone in this).

The record companies are a bunch of outdated leaches desperately looking for a reason to justify their outrageous cut.

The sooner they go to the wall the better.

They currently are nothing less than terrorists. They select individuals to ruin as an example to terrorise others.
Note that Bush (who publicly admitted he loved the Beatles on his iPod – which must have been illegal copies cos they were not legitimately available then) never got a summons.
Only the little people, eh?

Put simply nobody needs them anymore, hurry up and f*ck off and die parasites.