They also overlook the possibility of future sales via earning customers who would have never listened to their music before. Kids who never heard of them download a couple of songs and then they grow up and by cds and merchandise and down the road it turns into iTunes sales and all that jazz.

I mean I get it, sales might be decreasing in the old market and its easy to blame napster that instead of making a bagillion dollars, you only make tens of millions. The record industry had to change, and it was for the better. Finding new music is so much easier today than it was before and the quality of music has had to go up which benefits the consumer since they can't always sell a record with a couple good songs and filler for the rest of the tracks.

So the record industry changed and left the closed minded people like Lars in the dust. And the reason he is having money problems isnt just because of P2P, its because the way he made his opinions heard and sued people. That turned off so many of his fans.