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OFKU0:
I have no problem with the position you're in. You're a musician and probably a damn good one at that (people won't underwrite you if all you can do is play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star!) if you have a career that stems from your hard work.
What the lobbyists at the publishing houses seem to have forgotten is that in Canada, there have been laws inacted that subsidize the publishing houses for "the losses they suffer" in help to support their shrinking revenue stream, and yours.
I don't care if they want to charge a bit more for their products, but once I buy it, I should be able to do whatever the hell I want with it. And if I should put it up on a filesharing network does not mean I've given you the gun or pulled the trigger - that's your decision.
I have only third hand knowledge of how industries like yours work. Do you have any websites, research papers or facts and figures to help us see your side of the coin?
To date, I haven't seen hard verifiable proof that activities such as downloading media will ultimately kill the publishing industry as a whole, i.e., see publishing as an industry and career vanish in a few years time. In fact more often that not, downloading media has made media more accessible and therefore, more profitable to the employees of publishing houses (including you).
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"You looked at me as if I was eating runny eggs in slow motion." - Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip
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