Internet service providers threatened by the music industry: disconnect file sharers or else

So, don't sign any acts that are unlikely to appeal to people over 30, they won't make any more money from those acts anyway.

how would you like the industry to work? i've got five minutes left till i leave work, but:

downloads are 10p a minute for a high quality mp3. available through phones, music shops, using some sort of top up card.

a licencnig system is set up whereby vinyl/cd/whatever manufacturing houses can produce records of your choosing. with today's tech this isn't impossible. everything would be automated.

i'd like to see radio adopt some of the technologies of those intelligent internet radio stations. songs are adjusted to stuff you might like. perhaps you could even choose how wide the randomness of selection is.

record companies would make a killing if downloadable music was cheaper and on demand like this. you wouldn't ever think twice about downloading music.

hopefully the album format will kind of die, and djs will become the new sequencers of music.

bah, i dunno.

I don't LIKE being Targetted!

The best-selling albums are being downloaded illegally so much by kids as well as over-30s and this is the prime motivation for IFPI's action. They see the Scissor Sisters selling only 2 million albums, then calculate that another half a million people have downloaded it free or are just sharing it, 'theoretically' denying them another 5 million pounds plus (which is obviously nonsense).

UK file-sharers to be 'cut off'