Once upon a time, a 24/7 persisting network was expensive / out of each for a lot of people. Now, I at least have been enveloped in 3G / Wifi wherever I go (ma

Once upon a time, a 24/7 persisting network was expensive / out of each for a lot of people. Now, I at least have been enveloped in 3G / Wifi wherever I go (maybe I should go out a bit more ? ). Even from an analysis perspective, buffering over networks (which I use) is good enough for music consumption (44.1 * 4 bytes in 1 sec if we consider wav being streamed. That's 44 KBPs needed to repro at original sampling rate. Our networks do several multiples of that right now. I can't listen to music faster than that.) It is convenient, it is the future. OP's conundrum is the same my grandfather faced a few decades ago when my grandpa thought "Oh Shit, if the local library closes, I am owned and have to listen to a radio or something to pass my time". And the MAFIAA ? Well, they're setting themselves up for some severe disruption. I-Will-Fuck-The-World is not a sustainable business model.