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I've never said music should be free. I think the record companies either have to adapt to new distribution models or die. The industry seems to believe that the solution to their problems is banning the technology rather than embracing the technology.
I read somewhere this week that apple's itunes is actually providing more legal downloads than any of the p2p apps. I can't verify that, but if true it would stand to reason that buying music without buying the cd has come of age. Why are the record companies still hell bent on selling and shipping the plastic disc? They keep quoting cd unit sales as a metric of what illegal downloading is doing to them.
What other industry when given an opportunity to place a store in everyones home, a store which doesn't require inventory, can't lose a sale to a back order, one where the item can be sold for the same price as the physical object without ever having to produce ship or warehouse anything, what other industry would run the other way screaming.?
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