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Manic Skafe, I don't disagree with you.
I have seen some small independent bands make enough money to live on (not Madonna money but a living wage), giving some of their music away for free. They make their money touring and selling merchandise as well as licensing their music to films and tv commercials.
With music, this is a little easier to wrap one's head around as it is, relatively speaking, a lot cheaper to produce these days than it has been historically.
Film and television are another matter. Production of these cost a lot of money and unlike music are the medium (where as music is both live and recorded). I think rights holders are nuts (in any medium) to be aggressively prosecuting their fan base. They need to work out cheaper modes of earning revenue and distributing the final product. The traditional forms are costly to produce and distribute.
The next medium to go this way is the book, especially now that eReaders and iPads are about to make the electronic consumption of literature a lot easier.
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