[Principled]

If distribution goes online, people who have never downloaded music before will get a taste of it- and then they might realize that they can do it for free.

I agree. But the music from the good sites (apple, whatever) will be clean, labeled correctly, etc. The quality would be reliable. I'd love to see it.

[Sofa King]

>I agree. But the music from the good sites (apple, whatever) will be clean, labeled correctly, etc. The quality would be reliable. I'd love to see it.

The quality would be no different than from what you can get for free (and it takes 10 seconds to re-label a song). The MP3s you download off of the internet for free are the same quality you'd get if you ripped it off of the CD yourself.