I fail to see what possible connection this has to reality. I could dig up my old economics text book and trot out my old economics theory, but I don't have to. What possible change of the value of a good or service can take place in time scales of less than a milisecond? Computer trading systems are a fraud perpetrated by people that have a severe need of a reality check!!!

As the parent post alluded to all this serves is to make a dynamic system less stable. If the actions super rich (who else uses these devices) people didn't affect the likes of the rest of us I wouldn't care if they wanted to play these games! However, their nonsense like trading in derivatives have put the whole world monetary system in jeopardy!!!

Further, if like me you believe in the conspiracy theories of history (and if you don't then you are ignoring that conspiracies are ubiquitous in history), this may be the goal of the elites - to bring down the current ponzi scheme (the federal reserve system) so that they can reap the benefits of using the collapse to obtain real assets from the rest of us and put in place another fiat currency that lasts for another hundred years before they collapse that one too!!!

How 'bout this for a new idea? Why not distribute music that people find unique, creative, artistic and inventive - like groups and individuals did in the '60's and the '70's. Much of that music is now classic. It still sells.

I have a friend who has a son who has moved to LA to pursue the music scene (his dad and I live in Canada). He came home at Christmas and I asked how it was going. He repiled that he was getting sick of being told that he would get recorded if he sounded like someone else.

Sorry, music execs, that is not how you create music!!!

Maybe that is why your industry can't give your shit away!!! 'Cause its no good!!! Clue in!!! People will buy stuff that is different if you give them a chance to hear it! Then maybe your business won't die. Maybe thats why Trent Resnor and Nine Inch Nails are purposely not even coming to you to have you represent them!!! Maybe its because its impossible to make a decent living under one of your contracts.

Would Donovan, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Leonard Cohen, hell even the Beach Boys have had a chance in today's climate? No, and only 'cause they each had a unique sound that no exec would have "taken a risk on"!!! Well guess what!!! Music and art is about RISK!! Its about stepping into the unknown!!!

Each of these great artists would probably have been relegated to playing in the odd bar, just like my friend's son.