So, looks like the experiment was a success

[Bob Schroeck]

JFerio wrote:

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This is, literally, the biggest threat they do face from the internet... we are no longer dependent on them to "make it" in terms of gaining an international audience. The incredible ease of copying (let's face it, digital distribution is a quantum leap compared to all advances before, perhaps even all advances before put together) makes it incredibly easy and cheap to reach people anywhere with your content, as long as they have an internet connection, with no worries about producing, tracking, shipping, and reproducing inventory.

From that file of quotes I've mentioned a few times, which are of dubious provenance but of often appropriate content:

The greatest threat of the personal computer and the Internet is not so-called "piracy", but the loss of control over the creation and distribution of content.  These dangerous, disruptive technologies take the power to dictate American culture out of our hands and put it into the hands of every two-bit loser who thinks he has something worth listening to.  If we cannot control access to the cultural domain, we lose both our revenue stream and our influence over society at large.  -- Cary Sherman, president, RIAA

I just want to make it very clear -- the idea that the people own the culture is extinct.  We own the culture.  Without us there is no culture.  We are the gatekeepers who determine what is allowed into the culture, we are the arbiters who determine what is of value in the culture, we are the distributors who determine who may have the culture, and we are the enforcers who determine who is to be deprived of the culture.  No one has a right to the culture.  They only get temporary access, as we see fit to allow it, at the price we see fit to set.  -- Jonathan Lamy, spokesman for the RIAA

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.