The future musician - the Human Dongle (Score 1)

Look, I obviously shouldn't have brought up the case of handicapped musicians, because everyone's going to say, "hey, being handicapped is tough, we're sorry, but that's the way it is." Let's focus on the fact that lots of music is either unsuited for live performance or may be very expensive to perform live. For example, it may take five guitarists and a 20 piece orchestra or whatever. Or it may take a huge amount of electronics that aren't easily or inexpensively shipped around for touring. Or perhaps its some very very quiet ambient stuff. We all know of plenty of artists or groups that just don't translate well to live performance, but whose studio recordings are great. In this hypothetical future, none of these people can make a living doing what they're good at -- not because their music suddenly sucks, but simply because it's easy to steal it. I think that would be a shame.

Doesn't anyone else regret the fact that this technology which has (had?) the potential to allow anyone to make an independent living from their home studio or software development lab, even if they live in South Bumfuck, Outer Mongolia, is being abused to the point where the only way to make a living is to drag your physical body around from location to location for live performance, like some human dongle? This doesn't sound like "the future" to me, it sounds like a giant step backwards, a narrowing of possibilities instead of an expansion.