It is important to bolster the legal market. It is important to go after those file-sharing companies, but I don't think you will ever be able to eliminate them completely. Even if you do, it doesn't account for the music that's already out there on the Internet, free floating. You might help artists who are coming up tomorrow, but for artists like me who have been active for six years and have three albums, all of my material is now online and can be shared freely on these websites that pop up all over the world. To your comment “dollars, not pennies”, we want to receive dollars and pennies. We deserve dollars and pennies.
On December 6th, 2010. See this statement in context.