Hi Andrew, nice blog! And it's on a topic I actually understand. Wow. My slant on this, is that regardless of file sharing or any specific form of online "free music", there is nothing artists of today can really do to stop the internet. Look at all this free information on the web nowadays, starting with your informative, or should I say expert blogs on science. These things used to cost money in subscription. Mick Jagger recently, summed it all up. He said, in the early days before the 70's, artists were ripped off by the recording industry, only from the 70's to around 2000, did artists ever make money from record sales, those days have finished. Even if file sharing finished, there is you tube and endless other so called legal sources of free music. We are in a new era of information, being virtually cheap. Artists ought to understand that free advertising is a luxury, but the price to play is less physical record sales, though digital Itunes/Amazon sales are still very possible, and involve less overheads. So why all this talk on a decaying music industry, it doesn't seem to add up.