It is all about money and not about music, I suppose I could down load music for free, I buy it, my kids buy tracks from web sites, i buy cd's cos I can and don't need to the free downloads, I don't know why my kids buy and not down load for free, I have never asked them, it has never been an issue. When we recorded we paid our licence fee, and, although some of the arrangements were distinctly our own we didn't claim them as such. I know that many bootleg copies have been made and passed around I was even present when some were handed out, does it bother me, no, it isn't really about making money it is about making music and anyway, the people concerned probably bought a genuine copy in the end (rarity value!) For a long time the music industry has been a gravy train and a lot of people have been exploited, they were performers and their audience so the balance has been tipping with the popular music bands selling directly to their customers via the net and the middle persons not getting their vast cut, and, what really has me rolling about laughing, using tax payers money to remove the tax payers access to cheap music, now if the police charged the industries for policing it then wouldn't that be novel. It really hacks me off the amount of tax payers money is spent chasing and prosecuting the counterfeit clothing market so that the companies can maintain their profits ...at the tax payers expense and if the music industry wants to exert its monopoly on the music then let it pay for it. If a songwriters stuff is that good then there is enough legitamate income about to make a reasonable living, sad,it is only for a few of the top performers, I think the days of the "one hit wonder" keeping you for life may have passed...and why not.