The thing that gets me is the arrogant assumption that it's the music industry that should be first in line to benefit from any extra revenue that might be screwed out of internet users.
And what about those of us who simply don't use the 'net for warez? Orlowski is trying to bring schools and roads into this in order to establish that we already contribute to the costs of things we don't use. That again is complete arrogance - to think that music is somehow as vital to the fabric of our nation as our roads and schools are.
Entertainers of all kinds (by which I mean footballers and actors as well as pop musicians) enjoy a status and earning power out of all proportion with the rest of the Western economy and arguably always wildly out of proportion to their contribution to society (it's doctors, nurses and teachers that should be earning the megabucks). It sickens me that they can bleat on so much when they're losing the equivalent earning of spare tyres for their stretch limos.
(BTW, none of the above means I think that warezing is justified in any way. It isn't.)