[MarkWaldorf]

Well if people would rather download/buy Alex's song (which the sheer majority do) then they can buy what ever they want. Most music listeners don't stop and make a note of who wrote the melody, the lyrics of the second verse or who the produced the middle eight. If a song is good people will buy it. That's the way it's worked and always will work.

At the end of the day both the people who write songs for artists and Robbie are paid, so it isn't such a crime.