Oh, and do you REALLY believe that anything and everything that is good for business is good for the people to? How is that working out for you in your global recession initiating country?

Now, back on topic. Pirates are the biggest customers (as in “the people who pay the most cash to the industry”), there are no proven negative effects of file sharing, the total income for artists are increasing and there’s this peculiar thing that’s called Creative Commons that seems to be quite popular and ever increasing in use despite the doomsday theories of the big media company CEOs about anything and everything that is not payed for.

Fans have paid him millions upon millions of dollars over the past 30+ years, and now after he refused to publish an album over a dispute with recording company, he’s crying and whining that his “Toy-2001″ album was leaked.

I have no sympathy for him. If it was me, I’d make a public announcement saying whoever is responsible should be prosecuted, but that I’m glad the music finally got out to the fans. Then I could quietly sue the record label, who he claims was the reason it never released.

And by the way David, that album sucks, so I can understand why the recording company didn’t want to pay you what your used to earning. Make some good music, or do it for fun, your not a top recording artist anymore.

I still like his old stuff though… gotta give him that much credit, but some of these so-called “artists” are like crybabies, just greedy for money.

> You are doing harm to people who have done nothing to you.
Wrong. They are harming my culture and legacy, building on the work of those who came before them. The only actual paying for this is when they “borrow” an actual piece of someone elses work into their own. And no, giving credit to your influences in a press interview doesn’t count, it’s not real money. I expect any artist who uses the “my time and money” argument to keep track of, and constantly pay to, those who made their art possible, starting with states of all the other artists whose art they have seen/listened to since their childhood and ending with the music teacher they had in the 5th grade. Not to mention dear old grandma who used to sing public domain lullaby songs when the artist was little.