Remember the story from last month where four people died when a festival tent at Pukkelpop in Belgium collapsed during a severe thunderstorm?

Naturally, the festival organizers had insurance to cover these sorts of catastrophic things. So if you're the Adjuster assigned to the case, to what would you assign blame? The tent manufacturer? Those who erected the tent? Perhaps those in charge of supervising the tent?

No. You blame illegal file-sharing.

Here's the insurance company's reasoning: Illegal file-sharing has led to fewer CD sales. Fewer CD sales have forced artists, managers and labels to emphasize the live music experience--including festivals, of course--to make up for the lost revenue. Advertising these live gigs attracts people. And should a thunderstorm strike, those people risk being killed or injured.


When the tent fell, I thought for sure the culprit was gravity.

Ah Blackhorse

File Sharing, the thing that causes most death on Earth, e.g. file sharing causes terrorrism, wars, falling down stairs, falling out of windows and all those pesky falling (and probably crashing) deaths as well.

I guess insurance companies will now put the blame where it belongs, i.e. on file sharing rather than God.

You know, I suppose "file sharing" caused the recession that we now have instead of the bankers and their dodgy dealings. So, get rid of "file sharing" and everything will be right with the world.


UK Bob