http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ic/3416437.stm
And then they'll be complaining later that illegal downloads have
increased.
If you had any moral qualms about downloading, this action should remove
them.

The record industry has the nerve to complain that sales are in decline!

I can imagine the BPI are acting on pressure from record companies acting to
defend the larger, better established, local retailers from the
competition - "our sales are down because of those evil foreign Internet
dealers" - not because their operations are inefficient, old-fashioned,
expensive and undesirable. I thought that an open market was a healthy
market - how naive. We can privatise our utilities and natural monopolies so
that anyone from any land can own them, but not import music from beyond
Europe without a surcharge.

Companies like Sony (random example, applies here) wish to impose their own
global standards (CD) and yet control the availabilty of software through
methods such as regional coding (different random example). They drive their
electronics business with propreitory new technologies (eg SACD - another
random example), expect us all to clammer to buy yet another copy of some of
the most over-played and/or dullest music ever recorded, prevent us from
legitimately making back-ups for in-car listening and such with anti-piracy
measures that have no effect on high-level pirates but damage the pleasure
of legal home listening and will not support any artist for more time then
it takes to make a quick buck from their 11 year old fans before moving on
to some other wannabe. Now pricing cartels are being imposed and anyone who
wishes to offer UK consumers an alternative is forced to withdraw or
increase prices.

**** them all, they don't deserve our money.