http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A07E7DB1F39E433A25750C1A9609C94669ED7CF
note the date on the article

Pirating sheet music? Woot!

Those damn Canucks, always up to no good!

oh, I thought someone wrote a review about my band..

No, that's titled "Turn that crap down!"

"the mails"
Hahah.

Yes, people have long made a profit off the work of others or desired to enjoy the work of others without payment. Handel once had an opera stolen by a rival; he had someone listen in on rehearsals and write down a good bit of the music, then brought it to the stage before Handel did; he had to avoid his creditors for a while. Books of music were published in the Renaissance without permission by the various foreign authors.
But I know a lot about working for people who want your labor without paying for it: I'm a state government employee.

Good one
OT
It's all about scaremongering. Fact is, Music is still around and people are still making money out of it, granted not as much as in the eighties, but that's the game industry's fault they are snatching away at the pie of everyone's entertainment allowance.