... at least here in Finland. http://www.teosto.fi/teosto/we ... 75900022CA16?opendocument

The music composers and publishers' copyright association Teosto collected 42 million euros laste year and has distributed 36 of them to it's artists.

Basically this means that running this Voluntary association costs 6 million euros a year. Doesn't warez make sence or what?

Not if the artists are getting the 36 million euros that they're owed.

Well I suppose it is again a "would you allow minor bad for greater good" question. I'm still not paying Teosto executives' salary.

It's very profitable business, making money on stuff that other people create. Copyright laws are big joke right now, whole pre-emptive taxing is little silly considering downloads do not represent losses in sales at 1:1 ratio. Still I pay copyright "tax" on each single empty cassette or cd I buy because I may or may not record something on it that falls under copyright laws.

For a long time now, copyright system hasn't been there to protect artists. It's really good way to make money with no risk at all when you have lobbied in laws to benefit you. At the same time these big "pro-copyright" record companies having no issue ripping off other songs without original author's permission on their own labels.