As someone working in the recording industry, let me add my thoughts. First, I'm not surprised at all to read this. This sort of stuff is pretty common. Not bec

As someone working in the recording industry, let me add my thoughts. First, I'm not surprised at all to read this. This sort of stuff is pretty common. Not because of greed or malevolence (at least not primarily) but because of the utter incompetence and chaos in the music industry. The big four companies (Warner, Sony BMG, EMI and Universal) are enormous chaotic abominations where one department has no idea what the other department does (not unlike Microsoft or IBM in the software/tech industry). Corporate politics and ego plays a great part. Despite them constantly whining about the hardships caused by music piracy they grew way too comfortable as nothing really threatens their business model. Don't get me wrong; we need record labels and publishers. Someone has to invest in discovering, coaching and marketing artists. This is not an anti-recording industry rant but as someone who really loves music I'm infuriated to see every day how incompetent the recording industry is. Really I can imagine only two solutions: either a number of lawsuits like this delivers the shock to shake up the industry or emerging new competitors with better talent and more up-to-date views on the future of this business replace the old ones. Perhaps the second path would be better but to be successful in this industry, having money and being smart is not enough; you have to have lots of connections. Lots and lots of them.