The ones who will have to change are recording musicians, film makers,
composers, script writers and maybe book writers. The latter may well
survive because there is no book reading technology that is 'as nice as a
paper book' - yet.

However between the end state and the current state one almighty
electronic and legal cultural war will be waged, which has already begun.
The outcome is inevitable but the losing side have enormous resources at
their disposal so the fight will be pretty impressive.


I know plenty of cases where people have sampled a tv series from an
illegal download, and then gone out and spent big bucks on the complete
dvd version. I think HBO and others are well aware of this