are you sure 124 ???? The same methods the general public are using to cheat the record labels and ultimately the artists wont change just because there are smaller independent lables out there. It just means there is even less profit around to be shared amongst even smaller companies. A record company has to be a certain critical mass just to generate sales or do you think promting CD's and selling the from the back of the Gig van will seriously sustain anyone ? who will pay up front all the promotion and marketing and developement costs to see the end product being stolen and then given away for free ?

i dont think ignoring the problem of theft is the answer ...do you ?