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__You might not have a problem with it, but I think one of the saddest things that could be said about our generation would be that we were the ones that took music out of people's lives. __

I think your premise is wrong. Thanks to the same internet you think will destroy music, good jokes are emailed to millions of people in a matter of days. What do you think will happen when good music is discovered by some "average guy" in a bar in Maple Valley, Washington. He sends it to everyone he knows and the next thing you know, the whole world knows about it.

Good music in the future will be made more available to EVERYONE than it is now. And it will come from diverse communities that the current recording industry doesn't have the time nor inclination to tap.

Standard music biz marketing is SOOOOOO twentieth century.

"I think your premise is wrong. Thanks to the same internet you think will destroy music, good jokes are emailed to millions of people in a matter of days. What do you think will happen when good music is discovered by some "average guy" in a bar in Maple Valley, Washington. He sends it to everyone he knows and the next thing you know, the whole world knows about it. "

the problem with that, is although it shares the music faster... who gets paid to make music? musicians live off the royalties. take away the money, and the only thing they do is make it for the love of it; which, although honourable, gives no reason for any musician to share the music, because it then becomes a waste of time and a hassle.

Difference being it takes one guy two minutes to write a good joke, takes longer than that just to play a good song. I know exactly what will happen when somebody finds good music on the internet, the same thing that happens now... buttkiss. You don't e-mail multimeg files, or even links to multimeg files, to everybody you know. DSL is failing all over the country, music downloading isn't on the todo list of most people online because it takes too damn long with dial-up and wideband is only popular in the geek set.

If you want to compare how music travels on the internet to in the physical world all you have to do is compare BestBuy's stores with their website. In the stores music gets cherry real estest right up front, it's almost impossible to make a trip to BestBuy without walking next to or even through the music section. On the website it's the 8th item in the list, below the divider (under the fold in newspaper speak).

Good music in the future (if the future of music is the internet) will be LESS available because there won't be any money in making it so less will be made. It's all about the profit margin, anything people can't make monyey making they will not make. People cannot and will not make money making music on the internet, period. It's dot-com "new economy" BS to think otherwise. The new economy was and is a lie, the 20th century economy is how to make money, those who knocked it in the 90s are still nursing the wounds from when the old economy rose up and kicked them in the kiester.