Re:The problem with music as a business... (Score 1)

blockquoth the poster:

All I have to do is download the lyrics and I could sing the song. Garage bands could easily do a nice rendition of the song that'd be worth listening to. As a matter of fact, re-mixes are quite popular out there. A lot of remixes don't even have elements of the original score in them. Sounds like a problem, doesn't it? They may be able to stop me from ripping a CD, but there's no way on Earth they could stop somebody from recording their own rendition of a song.

But how could a garage band duplicate someone's complex and subtle playing style? Or a voice? Or the endless quirks of effects, or synthesizer sounds? And do you assume that the thousands of dollars of equipment (instruments and production gear) that go into even a modest recording could be be reproduced on a low budget, or with some software? There is far, far more to music than notes, lyrics, and basic arrangement. It is the artful combination of all of these things that makes a truly good song. It's true that music is easy to duplicate -- it is easy to duplicate the composite signal. Your claim that it is easy to duplicate from it's "bulding blocks" is ridiculous.