After losing out to the DeCSS case in Norway, it looks like the Music Biz is starting to understand its new reality.

The Guardian has this story about the first tiny chink in the hitherto impenetrable stupidity of the Entertainment Industry. They are finally conceding that file swapping is here to stay and that the industry will have to live with it.

Its only a first step, one day they will wake up to the reality that they will not only have to live with it, it will be their business, assuming they have one left. Just to demonstrate that they are still being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century,

"It has got to be accepted that file sharing will always be there just as shoplifting is accepted as wastage in the retail sector."

Mr Sherman admitted that the only response to illegal peer-to-peer services was to promote "legal, attractive alternatives that will make consumers want to pay for their music".