I'm suggesting that playing an instrument used to be considered very different than re-playing instruments that were previously played... Now it is coming closer together.

I would also like to point out that oxygen matters and a campaign is being launched all over northern Europe in protest of the volcanic eruptions. The EU is considering a class action lawsuit against the volcano and is in dialog with it's attorney.

Eugh this whole thing makes me feel sick and want to pirate something. I don't currently, but that patronising tone 'music matters' (oh really?) is like that creepy auntie trying to give you a lecture about the dangers of masturbation.
That and the arrogant swagger as if the music industry invented harmony, melody, chord structures and rhythm, when nearly every great hit has ripped off another lesser known and usually poor artist, when the whole music industry is prepared to criminalise children and take hard working families off the internet to protect a system which sexualises the young, exploits the talented, banalizes the highest emotions with some terrible songs it pushes on us like a crack pimp, using jiggy jiggy R&B music videos, distorting young people's sense of body image while polluting that most special of things - self-discovery and young love.
Everyone wants great artists to earn enough to keep going. But the rest of that rotten ship needs to be decommissioned as soon as possible.

"First they came for my mp3s,
and I said nothing,
for I still had the CDs in a pile in the cupboard.

Then they came for the tune I put on the video of my cat on youtube,
and I said nothing.
For I still had my cat.

Then they came for the wifi at my local cafe
and still I said nothing.
But I did write some angry tweets, I tell you what.

Then they came for me
But there was no one left to speak up;
(everyone was watching Lost.)"

via CyZilla (Guardian Comments thread)

I'm noticing a "quantum DJ shift" in that people think mixing or mashing, or messing with existing music is the same as creating music...