Jon T

Music Downloads: You Can't Regulate One Industry and Leave Another Alone

Quite right.

This British Government goes off half-cocked at every opportunity. It's quite unbelievable.

And if they do do this, what comes next, books, film and every other type of digital consumable?

The mess we in, and it could be far worse without the efforts of Apple's iTunes (5 billion songs and counting) is entirely due to the backwardness and greed of the music labels. Having made the mess they want to resort to legislation, and what government is more willing to issue legislation on anything that moves than this one?