I was just contemplating this topic.

I didnt come up with an answer. Just face it, music is no longer controlable in an economic sense. Its too easy to distribute it for free now.

Which got me thinkin - why did the industry give the nod to the CD format?? They really shot themselves in the foot with that one. The only plus that digital audio has is the quality and workability. Copyright control is its weakness.

The effect it has is to sort out those who really want to right music just for the sake of it (better still coz they feel the urge) and not for the money in it...coz there aint none anymore.

Personally, I resigned myself long ago to just write because I want to and my passion for playing Live to a crowd in the myriad of strange places one can find oneself in the wee hours of a Sunday morn.
Thats all it was to start with and thats all it is about at the end....

Lets face it. Even if you right the best track ever you will only sell a few copies digitally before it gets spread over the net to whoever and is lost in a sea of other "too easy to get" tracks that may also be gold.

I have noticed lately that most of the music and video I have seen is copied - passed around by people from every which way. FFS, even my parents drop in home to ask me to copy a CD for them that a friend lent them.....fark!!

Something seriously has to happen to gain control again or there will be a cashless music industry. Thats probably not so bad really???