Arkie, thanks for that link to the New Scientist article. I heard a news report about that on NPR today, and I'm not surprised.

I'm much more bothered by contemporary 'payola' ("indies" taking a cut to get a song added to a radio station's playlist), genre stagnation (stations ignoring listener preferences that don't fit their preconceived notions about their "format," and the focus on too narrow a "target demographic" (usually under 35) than I am about good musicians being hurt by internet downloads.