I can't help but feeling like this doesn't really matter. Music has been for me, as a listener and as a musician who sometimes uses samples, effectively free an

I can't help but feeling like this doesn't really matter. Music has been for me, as a listener and as a musician who sometimes uses samples, effectively free and without copyright for years now. It's already nearly impossible to make money by selling recorded sound. This just slows down the decay of the music industry, easing the transition to whatever new model will arise. And I don't mean economic model - I'm prepared for the recorded music industry to die completely. What replaces it may be an industry based around live, communal, algorithmic, etc. modes of music creation or music may lose importance to Western culture altogether. (As for other industries like SFX, movie soundtracks, etc., I don't know the story.)