| What I see file sharing doing is bringing music back to where it was before the phonograph was brought out. Not so much in the sense that only a live show will exist, but that it will remove corporate acts. Someone will not be able to make millions of dollars off of the production values of a song. We will be back to artists representing themselves, and only those truly interested in making art will do it.
To me, this is ideal, because teachers do deserve to be paid more than entertainers.
I can't blame the record companies for their capatalist methods, or couldn't until they started sueing people, but they need to fall if music will continue moving forward as art. Art really does belong to the people at it's base level.
Ah, in such an ugly time, the real protest is beauty. |