If by chance he ever records a hit song I would bet he would change his tune.
If by chance he ever records a hit song I would bet he would change his tune.
There's something deeply troubling about the whole music industry. Books and magazines could easily be digitized and copied to CDs, but they seldom are (althought many magazines and newspapers are available free online).
Something about the marketing of music will give within the next five to ten years. Either prices of CDs will come down (how can you justify paying the same price for an hour of audio as you do for four hours of video?) -- or the whole scheme will change.
Piracy is indeed illegal, and after a week's flirtation with napster, I bailed out of the downloading scene. But I don't buy CDs anymore, either, except used ones. This problem is not going to be solved by copy protection. If it is solved at all, it will be by some imaginative restructuring of the business.