Harry Shearer has a wonderful editorial in today's Sunday New York Times called "Rx for Music Industry: Seek Out the Old Geezers". The link is
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/we...ew/27SHEA.html
The geezers he's referring to are not the artists but buyers, boomers and older with more disposable income than time needed to download files per Grokster et al. In other words, the folks who go out and buy CDs to replace their vinyl faves, whose tastes are not limited to one artist or style. The current business model, according to Shearer, is to sue the customer or former customer, the downloading, freeloading pirates such as students with wide-open wide band internet access courtesy of their universities who wonder incredulously why anyone would pay for something they can get for free. Great read.