Oh wait, that doesn’t happen. The best music is always made strictly for the enjoyment of music, and is made unhampered by an individual’s ability to profit. The bad music on the other hand, the music made for money alone (you know the type, it’s all the songs you skip on your favorite bands’ albums), the filler songs, those are the ones that will go away.

If these are the consequences of piracy, how is it not appealing? The current paradigm for commercial music production desperately needs to be overhauled. If pirating music means that the musicians who write their own music continue to do so (and not all of them will), while the factory made disney musicians can no longer afford to pay others to write music for them, or the publishing industry is removed as a gatekeeper between me and the music I love… well, that doesn’t sound so bad. It sounds to me like an improvement in the ratio of quality to quantity.

Music theft: it’s like when your car gets stolen, but it’s still there in the morning, and your insurance stays the same.