Now imagine what happens if the Pirate Bay wins the case in Sweden, and Joel wins in the US. With the Featured Artists Coalition, the record industry will be completely dumbstruck! How could this happen? They were on the aggressive everywhere! Attacking in every corner of the world! Even the google service in China is just a gateway drug into the darkest pits of the record labels! So how could they possibly find themselves so utterly defeated? Not even the artists are on their side! To me, that would be the ultimate prize, to buy me some fresh Radiohead while the industry looks like idiots, wondering what hit them. I can’t wait for this to happen.

On the flipside of things, if Joel and the Pirate Bay lose, what happens? We have a strengthened industry, but will it matter? Will any of us seriously consider ceasing our acts of piracy? No, we won’t, we always knew it was borderline illegal, and we didn’t care, because hardly anyone ever gets confronted with this stuff. And then there’s still the Coalition. This is a struggle that the music industry can not win, ever. Technological advances can never be restricted by the corporate world for long, and file sharing will simply find a new fort. And then there’s the very nifty clouds, like torrentz and Gpirate, which are doing absolutely nothing illegal, and can not even be charged with hosting the torrent-files!

There will be a day of reckoning, my friends. It is close at hand, and we stand on the right side in this battle. Whether we win or not is not even relevant, even if the music industry rolls out tanks they will not be able to keep people from listening to the music that they want to. Just remember to pay the bands that are deserving, for we are, after all, the Robin Hood of this post-broadband world, eh?