Although my guitar is gathering dust while I do "the survival thing", I still keep my ties to the music industry current and am still a member in good standing of the Irish Music Rights Association (IMRO), so I'm not just a plain punter when I talk about music. That's why I found this article in the New York Times very interesting. Some people are starting to cop on to the fact a revolution is well along and not even Jack Valenti, starring as King Canute, can turn back the tide.

I guess I particularly like the article because I said pretty much the same in an earlier article about Music in the post copyright age* and a Q&A as my answer to self-asked question twelve, which was:

12. Which industries/businesses should feel most threatened by the increasing popularity of the Internet and its associated activities?

*= I based this article on ideas I expressed to music industry panelists during and after a Q&A session at a 1998 CMJ panel on band web marketing at the Millenium Hotel in Manhattan.