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Yeah, but we're past all that now, or we will be soon. Not quite as much business as there used to be for the whale-oil people these days - what a shame they didn't think to run to Congress and buy some laws to guarantee their continued dominance of the fuel business ;)

We'll see, I'm not buying that some massive revolution is coming. This thing looks to me like the new economy all over again. A lot of smoke and mirrors but in the end I think the record industry will remain basically the same. I have no problem with the RIAA going after copyright violators, I have problems with some of the changes in copyright law they push for, but at it's base I think the concept of copyright is good and deserves protection (from both sides).

IMHO the biggest change that will (and already is with iTunes) come out of this is the rebirth of the single. The CD boom really killed the single and the CD-single always sucked and nobody really likes them, but apparently the market never disappeared only the way to satisfy the market. iTunes seems to be the solution to that, The Stones seem to think so, you can criticize the Stones for a lot musically but never doubt their ability to make a buck.