Gary Lightbody industry, specifically how music is obtained by consumers. He questions the public's motive to buy the songs which they have already listened to, and blames Myspace for it. Of Snow Patrol, Lightbody has said that all albums they managed to sell in the early days were from touring, as there were no unauthorized copies of their music available then. He believes if the current state of the industry continues, it would become impossible for bands starting out to become full-time. Despite this, he observes that the band might not have survived if they had been successful early in their career,
Robert Lightbody ludensis". He is also credited by Murchison for the detection of the remains of fishes and crustaceans in beds at a higher level than the original Ludlow bone-bed in the railroad cutting to the north-east of Ludlow. Lightbody published several articles based upon his geological research, including "The Geology of Ludlow", "Remarks on Mr Roberts' Paper on Cephalaspis", "Notice of a Section at Mocktree", "Passage Beds at Downton", and "A Sketch of Geological Time", Lightbody was involved in a legal dispute with one of his neighbours in 1868,<ref name="C16/357">Chancery Suit, 'Lightbody vs Hodges', held by The National Archives, "C16/357"</ref> in