Selling music over the 'net still isn't a viable business model. It takes money, time, and connections in order to go national/international.

It will never be a viable business. Music is free now. You can't sell it.

What you CAN do is look at the expense of distributing your music online as a promotional expense. People get to know you. Eventually your music gets on P2P and you don't have to pay for THAT bandwidth.

The whole trick is getting people to hear your stuff so they want to go to your show. That's where money will be made by musicians in the future, NOT by selling the sound waves themselves.

Might take a few more years for musicians and the recording industry to grasp that, but mark my words, that's where we're going.

- lexta2000

I ask them, "what have you done last week?'. They may say they wrote a law on this or that. So I tell them, "Oh, you wrote a law, to benefit your constituents?"

"Would it bother you if some other legislature--say, the N.Y. state assembly, or the U.K. House of Commons--could prevent you from passing that law, because they wrote one like it last year, and now they own the statuatory language, the legal mechanisms, and underlying ideas?