“Several legislators were cought red-handed: the press discovered the exchange of pornographic material and pirated copies of videos right in parliament.

Is it not Mexico (and it’s parliament) one of the many places where the cartel lobbyists are trying to criminilize kids that download songs?

Maybe Universal heard about the story and is distancing itself to avoid the embarrasment.

So when Eric Garland from Big Champagne uses an estimate (with no references as to where this number comes from) of illegally traded tracks to ‘get an idea of the size of the problem’, it just helps to propagate the distorted concept that illegally acquired music equates to lost sales.

While sharing music is easy and free, people will naturally tend to be opportunistic.

If someone stops you in the street and asks you of you would like to buy a CD of an unknown artist you would likely say “No Thanks.” If they then said, “Well would you like to take it for free?”, you would probably take it.

That doesn’t mean the music retailer down the road lost a sale and likewise does not indicate the size of any problem with declining profits.