Lawrence Lessig : Why Wilco Is the Future of Music

[Mr. Dipity]

From Wired:

Record labels are threatened by technologies that give fans access to music in ways no one ever planned? Activist organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge (on whose boards this columnist sits) are fighting back. They (we) demand an end to the war, and the attack on innovation that it represents.

Yet there?s something hollow about the earnest rage on both sides of this debate. Hollow, as in inauthentic. It is artists who make music, not the industry that markets it or the technologies that take it. But artists independent of the industry have been as rare in this debate as kids who don?t file-share music.

http://www.modernmusician.info/index.php#p=22

[Girl Toes]

Music has a future?

[wrenhunter]

Shit, I love Wilco, but Larry is coming off as a serious fanboy:

Words echo in this poet's mind many times before they are spoken ... he said one word: racism. ... he almost whispered

Uh...

Of course, Jeff's right: if you make real* music and you aren't a cock, you get rewarded. The cool thing is that he's proved this by example. It's not some drippy sermon from Moby (&#153).

*Yeah, I know we all make "real" music, too. But most of us are not as talented as Wilco.