I just need to find out how to hook this stuff into my car stereo. If you're a slow reader, my 15 minutes of fame may have just expired. The one thing I keep wondering about in the future of online distribution is the reason behind music copyright. Many songs nowadays, and most of them in the past, are not performed by the same people that wrote them. I like the idea of music being distributed to a wider catchment area.
Fascinating possibilities abound.
I think that, if all music becomes like freeware, artists will still have some recourse for making money. The money people pay for CD's will just shift into ticket sales and memorabilia. As a musician and a professional Internet developer I'm very interested in MP3. I believe that it will be around for quite some time and that the installed base of users will grow tremendously during the next 18 months. Here's the bottom line, though.