AHHHHHHH (Screams uncontrollably into a glass of wine while revisong for a 3 hour wriiten examination tommorrow!!!) :lol:
All the guy asked was who to contact about booking Scooter

, and Sebastian contacted him!
My business experience is not within the music industry - so I guess I can't comment - but I do know that life in all areas is getting tougher and more competative!
What I would wish for as a fan is probably different to what I would do as a business - and I don't think Juia was around at the time of Encore (certainly not as forum admin) - I might be wrong - but I think she only became forum admin when the forum was re-launched in early 2004 (or possibly late 2003). I seem to remember when I met her in 2004 she had not been doing the job for very long.
I don't want to get into the topic of downloads here - because I have said my views many times before - but "sharing" is a rather nice name for it - in the same was as "joy riding" is for stealing and wrecking cars