[steve-b]

Duuuuuh... ya mean paying people millions of dollars to make your industry look like the product of an unspeakable menage a trois between Ebenezer Scrooge, Darth Vader, and Dr. Evil is a bad investment?

[Cable225]

an unlimited supply
and there is no reason why
i tell you it was all a frame
they only did it 'cos of fame

who?

e.m.i. e.m.i. e.m.i.
too many people had the suss
too many people support us
an unlimited amount
too many outlets in and out

who?

e.m.i. e.m.i. e.m.i.
and sir and friends are crucified
a day they wish that we had died
we are an addition we are rivaled by none

never ever never

and you thought that we were faking
that we were all just money making
you do not believe we're for real
or you would lose your cheap appeal?
oh don't you judge a book just by the cover
unless you cover just another
and blind acceptance is a sign
of stupid fools who stand in line

like

e.m.i. e.m.i. e.m.i.
unlimited edition
with an unlimited supply
that was the only reason
we all had to say goodbye
unlimited supply e.m.i.
there is no reason why e.m.i.
i tell you it was all a frame e.m.i.
they only did it 'cos of fame e.m.i.
i do not need the pressure e.m.i.
i can't stand those useless fools e.m.i.
ulimited supply e.m.i.

hallo e.m.i.

goodbye a & m

From Never Mind the Bollocks
The Sex pistols

[Santa Fe_Conservative]

And so the record companies have finally entered the 1980s.

[antinomian]

There will always be professional musicians. But the record industry is living on borrowed time.

[AndyJackson]

while costing the labels millions of dollars and doing little (if anything) to actually reduce the amount of file-sharing going on....

The real issue, I think is that the record companies already get all the revenue they are going to get. Better enforcement of copy right laws cannot extract more money out of, mostly teenagers, who just don't have the funds to pay it. The result may be less music for the total take. It won't be more money.