I think that's a fair view. The only thing that gives me pause is that we transitioned to a system where individual music tracks are nearly free-on-demand* a d

I think that's a fair view. The only thing that gives me pause is that we transitioned to a system where individual music tracks are nearly free-on-demand* a decade ago and the sky never fell. There were transition costs, and artists get way more from live performances now, but there's still an industry. More than anything I'd just like to experiment with shorter copyright terms. I don't think the founders were crazy when they set them at around a generation. I agree that it might be risky to blow everything up, but I think there's a lot of bargaining we could do over term lengths that would be pretty harmless. * To a first order approximation. Sure, many artists technically can get something when I pull up a track on YouTube. But if I'm not playing a whole playlist, I might not even see any ads.