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Originally posted by bilmore
I must have more faith in the free-market system than do you. If things are this bad, I have to believe that they won't JUST go after downloaders - they'll also work on their own business model to make it more palatable to consumers. There's no percentage, for them, in stopping downloading only to piss off their buyers by leaving them with the same system that disillusioned them to begin with.
Watch for very user-friendly single-song download services by membership, and a lower barrier to entry for the smaller music people. I think the new technology is only going to make life easier and more fun for the indies, as they sign up to be part of bigger online distribution groups.
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I have very little faith in the music industry to do that. I think they hired this guy to help them get penalties increased for anyone who does stuff they don't like. Ideally, they will want stiff trade sanctions (e.g., no food for them!!! and prohibitively high tariffs on anything they export!!!) against any country in which any person has illegally duplicated any CD and sold the copies on the black market.
