I'm still left wondering why anyone who disagrees with illegal file sharing/uploading/downloading is anally retentive, a capitalist lackey, restricting access to music for the deserving poor, paying a fair price for the plundering of traditional music and all of the other epithets.
I've used the Anonyma album as an example, although yes, now it has been taken down, simply because I came across it by sheer chance and it's my music. Not my copyright, but my songs, my performances and my first commercial recording. There are many other recordings affected by THTM and many, many other artists, some of whom may still not know that their music is on a blog. Yes, THTM did take my album down when asked, but not pleasantly (as I've said before) and it then turned up on another blog and we had to repeat the process.
I have still heard no good reason why the bloggers (who, I have no doubt, are enthusiastic about the music) can't do a very small amount of homework and seek out the musicians they admire to find out the copyright position for an album they want the world to hear.
And I still fail to understand why musicians and songwriters should be expected to give away their recorded product (which does not come cost free, and is generally intended to at least recoup those costs, if not make a profit) and smile happily when someone else decides to give it away for them.
But that's probably because I'm an anally retentive capitalist lackey - although I don't think anyone who knows anything about me would describe me that way. I'm just a working musician and songwriter, trying to make a living out of my music and my recordings.
I think I'll leave this thread alone now. If there were some good reasons to be stated I'm sure they would have turned up by now, and there's a huge amount of repetition going on. I remain, as I started, disappointed that this forum, of all forums, should have contributors who clearly want to hear the music without feeling they should support the musicians who create it.