So....the other side of all this then, is to walk away. Shut your music down completely! Own it 100%, lock, stock and barrel! Never let ANYONE hear it EVER....because Heck!...if you do...someone might be recording it! They MIGHT pass it on to their pals, free of charge...and then *they* might do the same....

And worry not that your music is suddenly becoming heard by many people, worry not that those people, far from buying a Myspace Greatest Hits CD will be buying music DIRECT from YOU...and telling their friends, passing your page around the world (I found Seth Lakeman on a Russian one the other day)....

Show of Hands of course, have been TELLING people to copy their music for years! At every single gig they stand on stage and give people their permission to record the show, then to copy their music and send it on to others, with their blessings....because they KNOW that whilst they may lose a few CD sales, they will gain many more. And along with those extra CD sales...they will also gain new people who will become part of the Show of Hands world. Many of those people who learnt about Steve and Phil through 'copied' music will, no doubt, be at the third sold out BIG GIG at the Royal Albert Hall next Easter...tickets for which went within days!

If someone ELSE owned Myspace Diane, would you be ranting quite so hard???????

How much is this about Murdoch and how much is about Myspace? And do you really think that Murdoch is going to make an absolute fortune selling 4 tracks of people's music?

Perhaps it's because you're *not* in Myspace that you don't understand the strength and incredibly postivie benefits of it.

But..I'll leave you to spread your negativity....as you always seem to want to do.....

Lizzie