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Difference being it takes one guy two minutes to write a good joke, takes longer than that just to play a good song. I know exactly what will happen when somebody finds good music on the internet, the same thing that happens now... buttkiss. You don't e-mail multimeg files, or even links to multimeg files, to everybody you know. DSL is failing all over the country, music downloading isn't on the todo list of most people online because it takes too damn long with dial-up and wideband is only popular in the geek set.

If you want to compare how music travels on the internet to in the physical world all you have to do is compare BestBuy's stores with their website. In the stores music gets cherry real estest right up front, it's almost impossible to make a trip to BestBuy without walking next to or even through the music section. On the website it's the 8th item in the list, below the divider (under the fold in newspaper speak).

Good music in the future (if the future of music is the internet) will be LESS available because there won't be any money in making it so less will be made. It's all about the profit margin, anything people can't make monyey making they will not make. People cannot and will not make money making music on the internet, period. It's dot-com "new economy" BS to think otherwise. The new economy was and is a lie, the 20th century economy is how to make money, those who knocked it in the 90s are still nursing the wounds from when the old economy rose up and kicked them in the kiester.

DSL is failing all over the country, music downloading isn't on the todo list of most people online because it takes too damn long with dial-up and wideband is only popular in the geek set

DSL is not failing all over the country, broadband is expanding rapidly in major cities, both cable and DSL. Wireless hubs are popping up all over. I pay $29 per month for my DSL service, and AOL is $24. It is well worth $5 for the speed. As the price falls, more people will discover what can quickly be done on the internet, including downloading music. The future is bleak for the music industry unless they adapt soon.

__You don't e-mail multimeg files, or even links to multimeg files__

Not with todays technology. But then, five years ago, who had the disc space to save .CDA files.

Just wait about two more years. The technolocy will make it a snap, and maybe even via means that are currently on some nerds drawing board. My first computer was a 386-33 with a 250 meg hard drive. It was lightning fast compared to my friends 286 with a 100 meg hard drive. We didn't see computers as a viable tool for video or audio, except for rudimentary games. It did have a single speed cd-rom that cost me an additional $600 though.

That was TEN YEARS AGO!

Let's see how people copy, send, and listen to music with their computers in the next ten years. I think we will both be surprised.

I hate to sound like a broken record on this, but I must repeat myself: In the future, musicians will make money through means other than the recordings of their music. The recorded music will serve as a teaser only. If they want to actually SELL music, then CD's will have to be offered for under $5.

__...it's almost impossible to make a trip to BestBuy without walking next to or even through the music section. __

Sounds like a high markup item...