Music distribution is going through a major change. Trying to prevent the move by the old policy/money makers will eventually lose. This is an evolution... The same as when society moved from the farm to the cities, from horse & buggy to automobiles, from landlines to cellular, from television to internet. How information (and entertainment) is exchanged will always be changing. In the early days of records, the record industry tried to prevent radio stations from playing their records. It was because they wanted the sole market on how people heard their content. That failed then, and the RIAA will fail now... Cheers.
B’but those nasty little kids are preventing britney spears from buying the latest gulfstream. Alas, she has to fly last year’s model. All because of those nasty little file sharing kiddies out there.
Actually, it was the musicians' unions, who wanted to protect the jobs of their members in broadcasting.
I remember when I was a kid in the 50s and the first commercially available reel-to-reel tape recorders came out. The recording industry went bonkers and sued everyone in sight. They lost that one, too. I agree... They'll lose this in the end.