Off with their heads!

Is that sarcastic, Mork?

I disagree with the industries conclusions, but I understand where they're coming from, especially with the "some 11 and 12 year olds with hundreds of albums have NEVER bought and will never buy a CD" angle.

Personally, I've never downloaded anything that I would have otherwise bought. But since their argument centres on uploaders, it might be argued that I'm nonetheless encouraging the proliferation of piracy.

However, I have downloaded and later bought a CD based on that initial download. But since a lot of online stores allow you to sample music, I guess this is a null argument, too.

It's becoming moot yet, but as usual the music industy is 10 years behind technology.

If they has started selling music online a long time ago, as they should have, perhaps things would never have got so bad.

Yes I agree with Mani totally, the music industries ignorace for new technology, and its smugness have at least in part led to this.

At the end of the day their a parasite who can see their existence in the future becoming a little sketchy. It will be a while yet before most music is sold via download but I look forward to a world without the Record Company. There will always be a role in the recording, processing and editing of music at a professional level, and such facilities excist anyway.

As mentioned in the BBC news report, we already have a generation of people who download all there music, be it legal or not, it goes to show that this kind of scenario is perfectly viable when its ingrained within society. Old techology disappears all the time and peopel just get used to the new thing.

Some people may agrue that without the Record Companies pumping the money into the advertising of artists, said artists may not sell as much, but in the long run I feel it will be a

Anyone gonna change their online habits?

tbh I've never been a music sharer so I don't have to change anything.

I don't believe their claims about only going after "big uploaders". They said the same in America and then ended up filing lawsuits against people who did nothing of the sort. I think anyone who uses ANY p2p software to upload OR download music should be relatively worried. And of course bittorrent doesn't help because you absolutely can't leech.

Unless they drastically reduce the price of CD albums this will never change anything. Then again even that wouldnt change it either I dont think.

/me watches his 8yr old daughter leech some more

Say if albums were cheaper at about £6 and say... £5 of that went to the music artist... i wouldnt download songs! but i never download albums anyway... only singles