Everything in its little box...

Ms Tizard says New Zealand music makers have been losing out because of piracy. "What we were worried about in particular was peer-to-peer file sharing. New Zealanders who make music and films can lose everything almost overnight if their work is illegally posted. One of the big recording studios told me that whereas a couple of years ago they were fully booked and when they were giving time away it was at 4am, now they are only about 60 per cent booked."

[Source: Chance of copyright solution 'fluffed', The Dominion Post]

Of course, this would have nothing to do with (A) the fact that we're looking down the barrel of an economic recession and (B) the rise in availability and quality of tools allowing people to do reasonable audio production outside of a big recording studio, would it.

As far as I'm aware, illegal file sharing hasn't suddenly become popular in the last two years, has it?