Music Industry Wakes Up: No More Suits for Filesharing

The approach of the music industry to the advent of online sharing of digital music may go down in history as one of the most textbook examples of how to punish your customer for their devotion to your product. Rather than recognizing the fact that online file-sharing indicated an incredible amount of devotion to music content on the part of the consumer, the music industry instead chose to punish their most loyal fans with suits.