The dark side of cellulose-based digital music...

> The music industry is marketing images and personalities with
> even less attention to the quality of the music from their artists.
> I think it's probably a good thing many young people are choosing
> not to pay for CDs and the Chinese are pirating the music, or these
> record companies would be in an even more powerful position to impose
> their products on us.

I think this may be true, but it is not a new practice; even sheet
music of the early 1900's seemed heavy on the cover art.

But I was more interested in the last sentence here from a historical
standpoint: Did anyone ever pirate piano rolls?  Since it's a digital
medium, all you'd have needed was a duplicating punch, and you'd have
been in business.

"Here's a way for you to break into the music business, kid.  Yowsa!"

Mark Kinsler