There is difference between being able to program and being a programmer. I agree, practically anyone is able to program (write a simple piece of code, that compiles and can be executed) but not everyone is able to be a programmer.

Car analogies don't work here. There is a *huge* difference in complexity between a car and software. Cars are simple (few parts and joints), software systems OTOH are the most complex systems created by humanity.

The point is: to work and be productive as a programmer in some real environment you have to load a huge and complex model into your brain, before you could do anything useful. I don't know, why it is, but my experience shows, that even optimistically speaking only 1 of 10 people is able to successfully work as a programmer in real world projects. That came to me as a huge surprise, too, once.

And? People listening music are generally not judges of a copyright suit. People like songs, which touch them emotionally and that emotion in music is not defined by the chord progressions, that comes from the artistic performance.

I'm sorry, but the reserch won't tell anything interesting. For a song it is much more important, HOW it is performed, not WHAT is performed. There is no (naive) formula there, that a computer could analyze. The success of a song has everything to do with the charm of the artists and how skilled the musicians are and how it is arranged and so on. The chord progressions are irrelevant. Look, this song had only 1 chord and it was a huge hit. So what now -- we start writing 1-chord songs and every monkey could be a star? Sorry, but no.

Few hundred dollars? Doing it all yourself? Yes, absolutely, it is possible, but nobody would want to listen that crap which you put out. I can absolutely guarantee that to you with 100% of probability. There really are minimal chances that a self-produced album made with a budget of few thousand dollars is something that anyone besides your mum and 2 friends wants to listen. First -- you need a lot of expensive gear for recording. You even cannot buy a decent microphone with that budget. But you're going to need a lot more -- instrument amplifiers, guitars, drums, lots of mics, preamps, DAV software, studio monitors et cetera. You need to build special mixing and recording rooms. Later the mastering of the album needs also special gear and rooms. Second -- you need someone who can operate this stuff. For example -- micing a drum set. It requires a lot knowledge and experience to do it properly and correctly. No musician is able to do that in their bedroom, no exceptions. You need to hire someone, who has experience in that, someone, who has done that with 100 bands and albums before yours and really knows all the technical stuff. Yes, it will cost you. Third -- you are not able to produce your own music. You need a producer. Producing your own stuff is as bad idea as being your own dentist, or defending yourself in the court. Why? Because you are too familiar with your music, you are not able to listen it unbiasedly. You need someone in the recording room, who is able to listen the stuff impartially, who is experienced, who sees the big picture, and who can tell you when you suck (or when you don't). So you need a producer with much experience, someone who has produced a lot of different music. Yes, it will cost you. Of course -- you actually should work with your music before studio. Do several rounds of demo recordings of the same material, do a decent pre-production where you verify, that your songs actually hang together from the beginning to the end and there aren't too many big issues with your music. Yes, this can be done home with that couple thousand dollars. But that is just a start, that's the beginning of the real work. If you think, that you have done some good stuff in home, then that's probably only 10% of the real potential of your music. The music can be made a lot better, if you include right people to help you with your final production. A lot better. I don't like recording companies. But I'm afraid there will be problems, if they go away. Who will finance this stuff? Not many bands or musicians know how to produce good stuff independently or have money for it. PS. I'm currently in the middle of recording an album. I have done one with recording company. This one is independent.

There is no Debian 8.10, current stable release is 4.0.

Actually, no, XSS is different. A web application may not have any XSS problems, but it still can have CSRF vulnerabilities. If an application accepts requests solely because the user is logged on and has sufficient privileges, then it probably is vulnerable to the CSRF, even if there are no XSS problems.