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Instead, it is controlled by contracts and licences and bureaucracy by a few business people.
I think we should aim our energy at this. Contracts and licences ar based on a method of music distribution soon to be archaic and should be changed quickly. Grasping on to cd's or any old medium and keeping a secondary market alive, won't ultimately change anything. It will be a downward spiral, where our beloved music won't be more available in the end.
The problem is protectionist laws, not the medium.
I don't care if labels are involved or the artists themselves, contracts will ALWAYS exist between parties.
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Limited downloading is understandable for the reasons cited.
However, downloading will, I think, eventually be superseded by streaming, where you pay your subscriptions and have open access to a wide range of content (more than you'd be able to 'buy' with the same money) without the burden of having to download it and manage your own storage and backups.
In the streaming world, the withdrawal of content would be much more problematic.
Cheers
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This has turned into about what art is?!
art is created for all sorts of reasons, but about 90% of what we know of as art (music, painting, sculpture, etc.) was created for money.
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Limited downloading is understandable for the reasons cited.
However, downloading will, I think, eventually be superseded by streaming, where you pay your subscriptions and have open access to a wide range of content (more than you'd be able to 'buy' with the same money) without the burden of having to download it and manage your own storage and backups.
In the streaming world, the withdrawal of content would be much more problematic.
Cheers
For that to become the status quo, two matters must occur:
1. The genocide of all digital piracy and hackery. Sony paid its cloud-loving price recently (twice, in movie and videogame form), and the day we have a fully streaming world of entertainment is the day we finally democratically vote for our legislature online, American Idol style.
2. People would have to evolve in a manner of eschewing the ownership of physical objects, at least in terms of media. They may do so out of convenience, there will be resistance (people may start pirating physical media using 3d printing, especially hipster, because ironic detatchment), but it's not as impossible an instance as #1.
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