Billy Bragg: Major Labels Are Biggest Threat to Music

Songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg has hit out major record companies’ practise of seeking prosecution against those who download music from the internet, and has branded them the ‘biggest single threat to music’.

Bragg, who is a prominent member of the Artists Coalition, has been an outspoken critic of the campaigns against free downloading and, when asked by The Guardian what he feels is the biggest threat to music today, replied: “Major record labels, for persecuting young people who download music for free.”

“What they don’t understand is that they use downloads to sample stuff that they later buy. Can you see why I might not think it’s a good thing to arrest people for listening to my songs?”

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