First of all for those who mention that they don't make profit from their re-mixes, that isn't relevant to potential loss suffered.
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Strictly speaking, this is of course true. And not that we condone or recommend any illegal or illicit use of samples etc, but there are of course, tens of thousands of un-commissioned remixes & mash-ups floating around cyber-space (for streaming and download). The vast majority of these will not even tickle a record companies interest due to the HUGE amount of work/cost needed to police the entire internet.
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Absolutely right. The labels' strategy on this (much like with the previous napster type issues) is to simply choose one or two innocuous nobodies and completely bankrupt them to a huge fanfare of publicity. Not a 'nice' thing to do but guranteed to send the message loud and clear. I guess what people have to do is weigh their chance of being the innocuous nobody against their chance of being the person rocketed to stardom. Like was said above, you pays yer money and takes yer chances.