BPI to Sue File-Sharers

NME -- Last week, BPI announced it was set to initiate legal proceedings against "major uploaders".

Organisations like the British Phonograph Industry claim to represent the interests of music artists. Since most fringe artists and more than a few main-streamers don't seem to have any beef with file-sharing (Thom Yorke of Radiohead's only gripe was the possibility of unfinished, dodgy master-tapes going out as finished products), and for every U2 you've got a million little nobody bands who above all else, just want to be heard, are the BPI really representative of musical artists, or just the ones already rich enough to feel the pinch?

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