This is absolutely sickening.
It's so depressing to see organizations like Ammunition taking a leaf out of the majors books and acting like mobsters. Dupstep, Ammunition and FWD only exist because of pirates and the support of things like barefiles. I'd like to hear Geeneus, who I've always thought was a very reasonable guy, or someone else from Ammunition post a response to all this. As far as I can make out, there is nothing driving this but a very irrational form of greed, the type I usually associate with people who do way too much coke.
This is counterintuitive to the way innovation happens within music. I expect the majors not to get it, they never have, but when their terminal case of fuckwittedness starts to infect smaller labels, I'm at a loss. I heard some very depressing stories recently about certain high profile grime/dubstep artists doing some very low five-figure publishing deals at the behest of EMI, who could of and should have held out for six and are now finding themselves to be financially castrated. All of this bullshit seems to be originating with the same person. I'm not going to name names, but my advice is to avoid her at all costs.