I can't help but think the music industry is approaching the problem of piracy the wrong way. Part of this comes from my recent reading about leaks of the ACTA treaty that Australia may or may not end up being a signatory to. My thoughts on this treaty are pretty simple though. To me, statutory damages are ludicrous, it doesn't solve the problem of enforcement, it obviously is not designed to benefit the community as a whole and (perhaps most importantly) it seems fundamentally untenable to me that Australia (or any country really) should want to give up its control of intellectual property legislation (particularly when such a treaty isn't really much about intellectual property law) without the legislators putting these kind of proposals to the people they're supposed to represent. Maybe that's a rant for a different occasion though. However, in the mean time I think musicians as well as managers and labels should be focusing on what they individually can be doing to improve their situation. The whole world doesn't need to change for you to make a go of it as an artist.