While I empathise with Australian musical acts including Jimmy Barnes, The Veronicas, Powderfinger, Operator Please, Human Nature and Grinspoon, who are pleading with fans via a new mini-documentary not to download music illegally, I think they should be asking questions of their record labels, too. In particular, they should be asking: why did the music companies drag the chain on licensing music for legal downloading, thus allowing the illegal downloading sites and applications to get such a strong foothold? The artists should also be urging the labels to give them a bigger slice of the action since he internet is significantly reducing their overheads on producing, distributing and marketing music.