I was just reading an article on the BBC news website here and found myself quite angered.

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The RIAA is also backing a large-scale "educational campaign" including public service adverts and targeting the university student market, a major area of piracy.

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Targetting the Uni student market? Now, lets get our fat arses out of our engulfing leather superchairs and analyse this.

The student market is pirating most music. Lets look at recent problems with fees where the whole argument was based on the fact that students just can't afford an extra £3000 a year. Now lets look at the £12 to £15 cost of your average new album.

It doesn't take a sodding music label's head marketing manager to realise the problem here.

I pirate alot of music (disclaimer). But I for one would spent alot more money on CDs if only I could afford more than a couple a month. If artists were given a bigger cut and these typically obese American moneygrabbing label CEOs, sitting on their superchairs in their Columbia, Capital, Virgin or other miscellaneous music labels head office got a little less for their troubles, we could charge much less per CD.

And this is even before we talk about the quality of music these days. Do any of the scouts for new talent have perfect hearing? Do the record labels not realise that the shit they're churning out isn't want we want to listen to these days?

Basically, RIAA, piss off and sort your industry out and the problem will go away.

I'm not in a bad mood, honest. Oh, and if the Film industry wants to think up some original ideas and produce some good films, that'd be good, too.