An interesting tidbit of info — all the major record labels are bitching that their sales are down due to free music downloads and theft. That’s only partly true: their sales -are- down, but guess whose sales are up?
If you said independent labels, you win a Microsoft Office sticker.
Independent record label company sales are up 30%; the largest independent online record seller reports double sales every year, or some such.
So what the big companies are complaining about is like Target reporting that retail sales are down because people are going to the Mom & Pop store around the corner.
They’re telling half-truths, part-stories and crap to justify stricter copy protection and restrictions on Internet technologies.
Maybe if they stopped putting out such crap music, people would buy their records again.