Just imagine a world where you need to insert your credit card into a reader to be able to flush the toilet at a restaurant, where a userID and password is required to fill your bathtub, and where you secretly trade water jugs of rainwater with your neighbors. This is basically what we have in the music business, now!
Go read this post now:
Gerd Speaks – MIDEM 2006, Cannes
And if you haven’t read The Future of Music, I would do that too.
It’s all about Music 2.0.