Usenet Newsgroups My method against music piracy From: ydeg71@tiscali.it (Yuri Degg) 1. Make 2 great albums. Develop adoring fan base; 2. set realistic, or moderately optimistic, sales goal for your 2nd    record, let's call this figure "X"; 3. make 3rd great album; 4. put progress bar on your band's home page, along with the following    message: "Our awesome third album is ready! We will start selling it    as soon as our 2nd album reaches X copies sold!"; 5. update progress bar daily with sales figures for your 2nd album. If you already have a dedicated fan base, you may skip step #1. If people want to hear more of your music, they'll do the right thing and support you. Yes, I am actually thinking of implementing this stuff for real. If everybody did this, piracy would be reduced to marginality (no good new music otherwise) and X would increase for all. Of course, the whole process needs to be backed by quality albums. Thank you for your comments. -- As long as there's, you know, hug and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.      -- irish Shrimpton, "This Is Spinal Tap" Subject