This is fascinating. Do you think he is right?
RR

dsk wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > OK, I'm talking about David Bowie,

> There was an article about him in Sunday's New York Times.

> "I don't even know why I
> would want to be on a label in a few years, because I don't think it's
> going to work by labels and by distribution systems in the same way," he
> said. "The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought
> about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be
> able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not
> going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will
> no longer exist in 10 years, and authorship and intellectual property is
> in for such a bashing."
>
> "Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity," he
> added. "So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years
> because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be
> prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only
> unique situation that's going to be left. It's terribly exciting. But on
> the other hand it doesn't matter if you think it's exciting or not; it's
> what's going to happen."

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