The major record label's stranglehold on what kind of music gets heard by the masses will be finally broken. Music has become an institutionalised industry that churns out garbage product for the lowest common denominator. The music industry restricts copying and other uses of music in order to maximise profit, but this comes at a great cost, that of abridging the spread of creativity. This will change. It is now possible for performers to spread their musical message directly to the masses via high-technology, thus enriching the artist and the music world in all possible ways.
Music is about creative and passionate ideas.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. References 1 . The GNU Manifesto by Richard Stallman. See dissenting opinion by Judge Kozinski. The Right Way to Tax DAT by Richard Stallman.