... stays in Neander Valley.

By the producer I assum you mean the coporations with the capital to control the means of production. The works who produce and provice service make far, far less.

I doubt it. According to the New York TImes: "Copyright protection lasts only 50 years in European Union countries, compared with 95 years in the United States, even if the recordings were originally made and released in America. So recordings made in the early- to mid-1950's -- by figures like Maria Callas, Elvis Presley and Ella Fitzgerald -- are entering the public domain in Europe, opening the way for any European recording company to release albums that had been owned exclusively by particular labels. Although the distribution of such albums would be limited to Europe in theory, record-store chains and specialty outlets in the United States routinely stock foreign imports." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/03/world/companies-in-us-sing-blues-as-europe-reprises-50-s-hits.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

Currently Amazon sells import CD's of music from Europe where copyright of recorded material expires after 50 years, in the US it is after 70 years. So Amazon is selling sets of great music (including recordings of Miles Davis, Elvis Presley, Johny Cash, Zoot Simms John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, etc) from the 50's made legally in Europe as public domain, but under copyright in the US. If this studend is found guilty, it would seem Amazon must be also. Check out this set of 8 Ellington albums for $15 http://www.amazon.com/8-Classic-Albums-Duke-Ellington/dp/B006UFCFBQ made in Europe, available for purchase in the US.

but made for a woman

I don't want to pay for cloud storage or the bandwidth to stream (all phone data plans seem to be moving away from unlimited access). I have a passion for music. I own over 1700 albums, I have them all scanned lossless flac format into a music server running Vortexbox which can stream to many devices in my home. I keep a 2TB backup drive that I can plug into my car stereo and my desktop at work. Network outages do not affect my music. I also don't trust the owners of the rights to recordings will not change access cost or availability in the future. What I own physically, I own.

also designers and marketers and ...

Clever of Apple to buy this technology to prevent it from landing on Android and other competitors' mobile platforms, which is where it was heading before Apple bought Siri.

I suggest value has multiplied rather than decreased

Dennis Ritchie's original notebooks from Telephone Laboratories from 1969-1973 - when will they be put on-line?

You would never pay "away all your money towards taxes" - and contrary to popular belief, we have lower taxes now than we had for most of the 20th century. It always pays you to make more money, you always retain most of it. Except in the case of tax credits, spending money just to write it off costs you money - since it only reduces your taxable income dollar for dollar but not taxes are only reduced to a lesser amount according to your effective tax rate. What the write-off does is exclude your business expenses fro your taxable income.