FILE SHARING WILL SAVE MUSIC

From Wired: gracefully articulated truths about a new era in media consumption. Great sentence:

"Even as music labels and movie studios try to sue peer-to-peer networks out of existence, these same networks have been preparing music labels and movie studios for the emerging social-media world, in which sales form only a small slice of the revenue pie, and what really matters is who likes what, and who pays attention to them."

Music, art, film, media is created from the ether, from negative space. That's where the possibility is and that's why there's an industry to begin with. What's weird is that we have a greater understanding of possibility and more people able to share in the exploration, yet the labels seem resistant of anything unestablished. Some of what doesn't exist is also what needs to:

"Finally, P2P accelerated the development of products that people want to purchase when free alternatives exist."