I get that labels don’t want their content stolen and that they want to make money from it but have you ever considered that the ridiculously high piracy figures from Asia may also arise from the inability to access digital music easily or even legally?

I want to buy music, I will pay for it, I love my new iPhone and want to cram it full of NEW music and was looking forward to doing just that but can I? Like hell I can. iTunes won’t even consider me as I’m in Hong Kong, drives me to distraction. I have no interest in going into a shop and buying a whole album and when I tried the Hutchison 3 site (twice), given that they are the only iPhone provider in town, it was the only time that my iPhone has crashed – how about that for customer service!

My otherwise great iPhone experience has been damaged enormously by the labels making it nigh on impossible to do with it what I could do if I was in most other developed countries.

LET ME BUY MUSIC, YOU FREAKS. No wonder people steal it.