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Story: UK gets tough on music swappers

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"The UK music industry has compared the fight against illegal online file sharing with curbing drunk driving."

This is proof positive, not that we needed it, that the music industry (or at least the BPI, RIAA and their money-grubbing industry executive friends) has lost the plot.

Driving while drunk is a stupid, dangerous activity which kills God alone knows how many people worldwide every year.

Whereas downloading music has yet to kill anyone, drunk or otherwise.

Just for the record: If I'd ever lost anyone I cared about to drunk driving, I would be mortally insulted by the BPI's crass, idiotic comments. I'd be writing to every newspaper in the land asking exactly who the hell these people think they are?

When are the real workers of the music industry, the artists, going to wake up and realise that the organizations which allege to represent them are long overdue being publically slapped down and humiliated by the people who make their existence possible?

And when is the music buying public going to say "enough is enough" and boycott the product of an industry which treats all it's customers as criminals?

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