I think it's worth trying to tease apart the several issues you raise regarding copyright in general. That copyright has been extended again and again is indeed

I think it's worth trying to tease apart the several issues you raise regarding copyright in general. That copyright has been extended again and again is indeed kind of ridiculous, supposedly all to prevent people from remixing Steamboat Willie or Mickey Mouse, but isn't that fundamentally a different thing that is commonly described as "piracy"? Yes, we all have minds filled with cultural information and it should be part of the public commons that we can draw upon to create new works. But let's not confuse that with downloading copies of new work created this year, by some creative person somewhere, who may wish you would compensate them for what they invested in their work. > So, in this space, who do you see as a disruptive or interesting player, and why? Who will you support with your wallet? Because I'm done. I'm tired of it. There's a lot of interesting disruption that may have been caused by pirates and outrage over DRM and other heavy handed approaches to control. Beyond Netflix, Spotify, Amazon and Apple selling DRM free files, many record companies will now happily directly sell you DRM free files, sometimes even in awesome formats like FLAC. You can often go to a band's site and find a crappy little Paypal storefront with files like this. It works pretty well. Not always, and maybe not on some of the bigger record company's sites. But their music is crap anyway ;)