In a terrific article that sums up the Free versus Fee File/Music sharing debate that I and many others have been championing on these page. The stark realization that consumers young and old have made a choice, of which nothing the recording industry co do to stop the transformation of the music sales industry.
I hope my kids generation will never have to buy a CD in a Record store. I would hope that if she or he hears a cool song on the radio that the music industry would have the foresight to make ordering that song for pocket change as easy as pushing a button. How many times have you said that’s a nice song I wonder what the name of the group is. If technology gets it’s act together that information will be displayed on my radio and ordering the track would be as simple as pushing a button on my cell phone.
The RIAA/MPAA fight to shutdown what they consider illegal networks will become more bloodier before it’s over, with companies like Apple, Amazon and Listen.com making dramatic price changes in there per song cost and adding music download services the tide has started to shift into a affordable solution to the piracy of music.
The referenced article lays out the stark truth of what has happened and what probably will in the fight for Free vs Fee. [Cnet]