Oh noes! A full thousand!

I'm sorry, but even a thousand is nothing.

Let's say you get an average of 15 tracks on a CD, and a CD, when new, costs about £10.

If one person downloaded all of the 1000 tracks, then the music industry would be around £670 out of pocket.

For the industry to be £108,000 out of pocket, it needs 162 people, give or take, to download each of the 1000 songs - in other words, 162,000 songs need to be downloaded (which, out of plain interest would be the equivalent of about £749,250,000 in fines, if we take the figure that the defendant was fined).

Obviously there's going to be an error in my calculations (if anything, they might be a few million out... but when we're talking such big money, does the odd million even matter?).

Just another interesting fact to chew on - the global market for the music industry is estimated at between $30-$40 billion!

Sorry if I'm ranting a bit.