"Richard J Kinch" wrote in message
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Hawke writes:

The government does what interests lobbying it want. It's pay to
play. The recording industry pays a lot so they have a lot of influence.

Yes, of course. But the whole reason for existence (tangible, expensive
media trafficked in public) has vanished, and so will the business and
income. It can't be magically rebuilt on charging money to alter
intangible states of matter that people already own.

The record business sold records. Records are gone.

Records are gone, that's true. But CDs and DVDs aren't and any configuration
of electrons, magnetism, or whatever they come up with next will be called
intellectual property. This will be sold and the industry will find a way to
protect this property and to profit from it. If you think "music" or
"entertainment" won't be sold in one way or another you're mistaken. No
matter how clever people are at coming up with new ideas other ones are just
as good at finding ways to make a profit off of it. In that I do have
confidence.

Hawke