Record labels suing everyone

Eleven years ago, Napster revolutionized commercial music by - we're all grownups, let's call a spade a spade - democratizing piracy.
Without doubt, consumers in 1999 needed better access to music. They needed the opportunity to preview full tracks, to pick and choose songs from an album and to have instant gratification through online downloads. And 10 years later, consumers still have all those lovely perks. Napster ate it (thanks, Metallica!), but Kazaa sprang from its ashes. Then there was Limewire and its cadre. Due props to Apple for monetizing the system as it stood when the iTunes store came on the scene, but users are now ridiculously entitled about what kinds of readily available (a.k.a. easily stolen) files they are willing to pay for and their justifications for stealing media. Yet musicians, as much as they've tried to adapt, are still getting screwed by the Internet and their fans.
Illegal downloads have been said by many to stimulate sales; the Radiohead album Kid A is often cited as a case in point. But when users are downloading media as a substitute for actually purchasing it, the paradigm hurts musicians far more than it helps. I would venture to speculate that in P2P ecosystems, users get the glory and commercial musicians get the hard knocks. Users have dozens of ways - P2P, YouTube, a bajillion file-sharing sites - to share music that profit the musicians themselves little or not at all.
We don't always consider the cost of music in relation to the costs of its production and get hung up instead on quandaries of intellectual property, the rights to exploit the same ideas, musical or otherwise, over and over again with no value added. Of course, price is not a function of production costs but of consumer demand. But consumer demand, if Bradley is right, is itself a function of the perceived fairness of the price in relation to manufacturing costs. The enthusiasm that might have bolstered demand for legally sold music has been diverted into finding ways to undermine that market, which has been rejected as unfair and illegitimate by enough consumers to completely cripple its functioning. Apple's approach to repairing this market was flat-fee pricing, which consumers accepted as more apparently fair. The record industry responded by allowing the dysfunctional market to make prices even more unfair for those still willing to participate in it, and then attempted to imprison those customers in that malfunctioning market with root-kits and lawsuits and other coercive measures.
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They say we are in the information age and the time is now for you to act and make your dreams come true. Don't be a slave to the record labels and do all that you can do to live your dreams of music and fame. Your time is now! So we can keep the music playing.