Insightful.

The old distribution model, on which the current holders of copyright are so dependent for income, has been overrun in just under a decade, and it is to be expected that such a system take its sweet time to restructure, but restructure it must.

New models are emerging as we speak, but which one will prevail is anybody’s guess. I, along with others I’m sure, am of the opinion that the Live Concert will become the most precious commodity in the future when it comes to music, with really big acts like we saw in the latter half of the 20th century (The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Madonna, U2, Oasis, MJ – I could go on) becoming more or less extinct, as success becomes less contingent on massive record sales and more reliant on impressive live performance (meaning more hectic schedules for artists) coupled with word-of-blog or whatever sort of internet-based hypermarketing scheme will be raping our minds at whatever point in the future we pick(facebook, I’m looking your way).

I assume that’s what we’ll do with Overthinking It some day when the government bans Overthinking.

Websites that advertise torrents could be a better target (after all, you’re not allowed to put an ad in the yellow pages saying “Get your crack cocaine here!”), but all that would happen is they’d move to countries with looser copyright laws. I mean, look at the Pirate Bay.

I get frustrated with this crap a lot because I think the bottom line that will save everybody $$$ in the end is for the companies to not go after individual people but instead the suppliers of their software and the websites advertising torrents and stuff. It’s like a zombie video game: you can run around shooting individual or even groups of zombies as much as you want, but until you destroy the facility the virus originated from (or it starts its self-destruct-sequence), the game isn’t over- they’ll keep coming.