said by SRFireside :

Big enough. Nettwerk is the biggest record label in Canada.

The district court further determined that plaintiffs’ exclusive rights under § 106 were violated: “here the evidence establishes that a majority of Napster users use the service to download and upload copyrighted music. . . . And by doing that, it constitutes–the uses constitute direct infringement of plaintiffs' musical compositions, recordings.” A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., Nos. 99-5183, 00-0074, 2000 WL 1009483, at *1 (N.D. Cal. July 26, 2000) (transcript of proceedings). The district court also noted that “it is pretty much acknowledged . . . by Napster that this is infringement.” Id. We agree that plaintiffs have shown that Napster users infringe at least two of the copyright holders’ exclusive rights: the rights of reproduction, § 106(1); and distribution, § 106(3). Napster users who upload file names to the search index for others to copy violate plaintiffs’ distribution rights. Napster users who download files containing copyrighted music violate plaintiffs’ reproduction rights.
Napster asserts an affirmative defense to the charge that its users directly infringe plaintiffs’ copyrighted musical compositions and sound recordings.

said by spiralspirit :

Not exactly accurate. The artist may be writing/performing the music, but there is much more to the making of an album, including recording, mixing, CD production+shipping, advertisements, contracts with various distributors, etc.

Any artist willing to do all of this themselves can certainly try to both be musicians and businessmen, but the reality of the situation is that there is alot of work done OUTSIDE of the actualy music making that requires many man-hours and resources.

said by spiralspirit :

ya except I have no idea who they are, whereas I cant turn on the radio for 10 minutes without an avril levigne song coming on. No competition.