WARNING: rant mode is in FULL tilt.
There is no other way to describe it. Apparently, even if My iPod filled with ONLY legal downloaded I am thief just because somebody out their is “gankin’” their stuff off the internet.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, QOTSA, T.I. Rock For Zune
Microsoft is working with all major and independent labels to establish similar revenue-sharing agreements. According to published reports, UMG is expected to receive more than $1 for each $250 device and sources at UMG have confirmed that half of all the proceeds from the device’s sales will be shared equally among all its artists.
This is YET ANOTHER example of why Music sales are so low. They treat customers like idiots by putting out formulaic crap, and we are expected to think it is hot because they shake some flesh in a video and pay the radio stations to spin a gazillion times. Then they treat us like criminals, with statements like this. So what do people do? They steal the stuff. Don’t get it twisted. Theft is theft. And all theft is wrong. And the industry has a right to protect itself from thieves, but I am not thief. And people who are like me are not thieves. And I am sure most of the people currently being sued by the RIAA, are not thieves.
QUESTION: How much of the Zune “kickback” is going to back to the artists?
ANSWER: Not a red cent. Actually 50 red cents. Sometimes a I get a head of myself 
They know they are not going to be able to sue their way to stopping file sharing. So they now want a “piece of the action.” But if one of their legal questionable “witch hunters” discover that the name of a file on my hard drive that might happen to match the name of one of their artists, or the title of a song and BAM!!!
“You have been served.”
The big thieves hang the little ones. — Czech Proverb
Dap: Boing Boing
