I agree- the days of charging $15+ for a CD with 2 good cuts are past. The music industry will adapt, probably by finding some way to market individual cuts over the net, or letting people purchase customized cd's.

A note for those who cry about copyright infringement- copyrights used to live for 50 years and die. Lobbying has extended that twice in hte last 20 years, to the point it is now 100 years, I think.

The greats, Louis Armstong, Marlene Dietrich, and others would be coming into the public domain now, except for this fact. I feel no shame for downloading their works.

(Oh, Ipost through a proxy- they have not captured my IP

In fact, I am pretty happy about the music-industry going down. Just think about the combination of "music" and "industry". There is something wrong here, isn´t it? I know some professional musicians and they all point out that they don´t work for the big money but for their art. Do you really think that the latest ***************-Hitsingle is the best possible music? Yet it is the most popular thanks to the massive marketing financed by the incredible sums the music-industry can allocate. So what will happen when the millions disappear? Well perhaps there won´t be another Britney, but you might get to know some new musicians you never heard about before! What I am trying to point out here is:

There was music (GOOD music) long before there was even money, and there will be. So what could we possibly loose?