[Conversation between Kiko Jones and a self-confessed computer nerd and music fan, over drinks at a neighborhood Brooklyn bar.]
CN/MF: Man, free downloading and file sharing are gonna be awesome for music.
KJ: Really, how so?
CN/MF: It’s gonna bring music back to minstrelsy. As a musician, you won’t be able to pay your rent or bills with it, but it’ll be great.
KJ: Hey, I know it’s a bad analogy, but you wouldn’t feel that way if the government, the marketplace or whomever, arbitrarily and greedily made, say, writing computer code a non-compensated skill, right?
Listen, I’ll pay you $100 bucks a head for every musician you bring me who honestly believes that the disappearance of revenue streams is a good thing for him or her.
CN/MF: Well, um, I guess, yeah...I hadn’t seen it that way.
[Lord, save us.]
