It looks like these guys will never learn...

They had an opportunity to jump on the digital market when kazaa etc was coming up, and back then they choose not to, thereby creating a whole illegal market. I'm quite confident that had they back then decided to start selling digital music (without all this DRM nonsense), there would have been far less piracy and illegal downloading. Now these guys must face that they missed the boat, and it's far more difficult to make people pay again when they know they can get something for free. The recording associations need to realize their old model can't be sustained and doesn't work any longer. Adapt or die out ...

Now I must say that i offcourse think artists should get payed for their work, but this is not going to happen by creating harsher and harsher law, especially since most of the money of these fines stays in the hands of recording industry instead of going of these artists.

A lot of the music that IS legally available for download has this nasty DRm built in, which means i cannot play the music I bought where and when I want it, nor on the medium I want... Someone said it this way (credit to this unknown person):
If we can't get our multimedia for free (as in free speech), we will get it for free (as in free beer)!
It's time these people start to listen to their customers, instead of treating them all as criminals!