Wired announces The Year The Music Dies and gives the the music industry only five or ten more years to live.

"The labels' new legitimate online music services attracted fewer paying customers than the McDonald's in Times Square. (...) The electronics industry's attitude toward the labels is summed up by an Apple slogan: Rip. Mix. Burn. Which, a music executive once told me, translates into "Fuck you, record labels."

Capitalism eats itself. It's going to be interesting how big business is going to solve this problem. If they're interested in solving it. It's obvious that Sony makes more money with selling MP3-phones rather than Michael Jackson-cds and Bertelsmann aka. BMG is just too stupid to realize what's going on after buying Napster. The funniest example of globalism right now is AOL Time Warner. AOL sells high-speed-internet-connections to people who download all kinds of songs and movies produced by Warner. Look at this grand old player which used to be called Warner Brothers and what it came down to. . Now they're almost bankrupt and think about selling their music-labels.