Parallel to the intensified blood hunt for file sharers, the music industry is screaming for strengthened copyright laws, under the pretext that it is to protect the creators (musicians, artists, writers). In actual case, it is obviously to protect their own interests that the major record labels try to throw a spanner into the works for both development and creativity. With the current laws it would be impossible for genres like jazz and rock music to emerge since what has always been an integral part of musical development, namely references, borrowings and paraphrases, no longer is possible without financial backing from the major players of the music industry. Instead of investing money in trying to keep up with the technical development the money is spent on lobbying to convince politicians and legislators that it is necessary to litigate against both file sharing and any creator who gets the idea to borrow to create something new. Few others have been protected more fiercely in this way than an old pop band from Liverpool, who themselves were borrowing a lot from old blues tunes. We are of course speaking of The Beatles, and said band is also one of the reasons why we now see the copyright for recordings being prolonged.