As he presumably checks the back of the sofa for a few spare cents, illegal file-sharing blokey Joel Tenenbaum - last month found guilty of copyright infringement for his sharing of unlicensed music via P2P and ordered to pay $675,000 in damages, of course - has given the New Yorker his take on the future of the digital music industry. Or something like that.
Asked about how the music industry could better connect with young music fans on the internet, Tenenbaum told the magazine: "Most people want to pay for music when they know the revenue goes straight to the artist. When an entire generation has been raised without supervision on music as a post-scarcity resource, it effectively becomes free, and it's a little late for an incredibly small but immensely powerful minority to impose its will and alter the norms of an entire generation. It won't work and it's wrong to try".
So there you have it. Tenenbaum's lawyer, Harvard prof Charlie Nesson, plans to appeal the damages payment his client has been ordered to pay. If that doesn't work the file-sharer plans to declare himself bankrupt. Personally I'd take him through the criminal courts and have him cleaning the internet pipes for six months.