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That decline has taken a heavy toll on our industry as a whole — from songwriters losing their jobs to record stores, especially those around college campuses, closing their doors.

Just as parents are talking to their kids about smoking, or alcohol, or drug use, they’re now talking to their kids about illegal downloading.

It’s plain and simple. Where there has been evidence of music theft, there are consequences for illegal activity.

We will continue to send a strong message to the users of these illicit networks that their actions are illegal, they can be identified and the consequences are real.

Growth in the illegal marketplace is just minimal in comparison [to the legal marketplace]. And I think what that indicates is that our efforts have helped.

It’s not our goal to wipe out piracy entirely. It is our goal to bring it to a level of manageable control — just as our industry has lived with physical piracy on the street...

Theft is theft. When you log onto an illegal service and download music for free without compensation to the artists, the songwriters, the publishers, the musicians — all those thousands of individuals whose hard work...

I guess I would respond by saying that in June, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the uploading and downloading of songs, in violation of copyright, is illegal. And, I think, against that...

As an industry, you can live with a low-grade fever, but you cannot live with a cancer — and that’s the level that we’re currently at.

This online theft has taken a tremendous toll on the industry as a whole.