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Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business.

When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.

Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.

Just as the music industry couldn't combat the financial impact of digital piracy, major corporations will have to rethink how to maintain margins when many of their most profitable items can be easily manufactured at home.

Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.