the problem is the middle men (Score 1)

every new technology layer remove the need for insignificant middlemen. Which the RIAA, record companies, movie studios are. Because of the web there is now a direct link between artists and the population. And as technologies evolve, the length of that link will be reduced and the middlemen will completely disappear. that is why they are scared and struggling to find a purpose. New and drastic P2P technologies are on the work that will allow instant searches, copies, distribution and consuming of content to the population and instant rewarding mechanisms for the artists that produce it. No servers, No traces and encrypted. All this without the need for knowledge inflated greed-based absolutely useless organizations that highjack both our desires and curiosities as much as the artists needs and survival tools. in the future, it will interesting to see if even only one of those middlemen emerge intact and with a sense of purpose out of the underground replication effort by various hackers around the globe...