Seems reasonable enough. After all, soap is extremely useful stuff. And very much associated with song by everyone who has ever sung in the bath.

The point he was making was surely that the soap making industry and the hotel business aren't significantly affected by that kind of theft.

I can't see any way of reversing the change that has come about in the way music circulates. If in time it means that some other way for us all collectively to ensure that musicians and suchlike get what they need to live has to be worked out, that will need to be done.

It should be possible. It's not as if more than a fraction of the money taken by the canned music industry over the years has gone to the people actually making the music, setting aside a pretty small number of exceptions.