P.S. I think you are encouraging other performers to follow the example of Billy Bragg and SoH. Well OK, it works for them: they are household names and they sell enough CDs and get enough highly paid gigs not to worry about the loss of a few CD sales. It's just a publicity trick capitalising on their existing popularity to get them some more goodwill.

That doesn't work for everybody.

And putting one of their albums on a blog for the rest of the world to help themselves is (a) not the same as "making a copy for your mates" and (b) quite possibly violates the "no profit" rule if the blog in question carries adverts, in which case the provision of free music is designed to increase the advertising revenue.

Anahata