I've been reading similar ideas at least since Jaron Lanier's 1999 (!) article http://nyti.ms/f8UtQg "Making an Ally of Piracy". The important thing I take away from it is that musicians will only be successful if they are of the entrepreneurial personality type, i.e. the type who's happy spending 10% of time on music and 90% on the business of music. In a way it's a shame that the "revolution" will not benefit the reclusive geniuses, but I guess this is human progress.
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I've been reading similar ideas at least since Jaron Lanier's 1999 (!) article http://nyti.ms/f8UtQg "Making an Ally of Piracy". The important thing I take away from it is that musicians will only be successful if they are of the entrepreneurial personality type, i.e. the type who's happy spending 10% of time on music and 90% on the business of music. In a way it's a shame that the "revolution" will not benefit the reclusive geniuses, but I guess this is human progress.