Excerpt from TheInquirer

For years, the RIAA has claimed that illegal downloads and file sharing is killing music. Those claims look pretty damned stupid in the face of a 1,300% increase in legitimate album sales.

What Live 8 proved beyond doubt is that if you write good songs and can actually play instruments rather than simply sampling a George Clinton bass line and droning on about hoes and other garden implements, people will slap their foreheads in amazement, exclaim "bugger me, that's really good," and nip down the shops to buy the album...
Bwahaha.