Side Issue
Side Issue
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
What to do about free downloading is such a yawn issue now. Recorded music currently is making a transition to a future where it will not be paid for by the unit. That doesn't mean it will necessarily be free. Nothing is. In the UK health care is free only in that if you have major surgery costing tens of thousands you don't actually get a bill. It's not really free of course it is just paid for differently.
This is what is happening with recorded music. It is re-structuring to be paid for differently, possibly by subscription or better still by return to old fashioned patronage where the public pays the artist for creating art. At that point sharing files won't matter. What matters is that artists can get paid consistent with their worth. That was always what mattered and most of us never got paid anyway. Perhaps a new system with new people running it will be fairer.
So get over the peer-to-peer paranoia. It doesn't matter. It is a side issue at most. A non issue eventually.
