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File sharing is the beginning of the end of recorded and broadly distributed popular music.
Soon, it'll be all oldies, all the time. Sure, some new economic models will emerge. Mojo Nation, for example, is a distributed file system based on barter economy. You get paid digital cash for sharing files and sharing your computer. But it's even more complicated to figure out than FreeNet.