This was 25 years ago: https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/ https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/, and nothing has fundamentally changed about the music

This was 25 years ago: https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/ https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/, and nothing has fundamentally changed about the music industry in the interim. More and more digital tools are at hand for anyone to make professional-sounding music, yet it's harder and harder to be found in the "long tail," and it's a wash. Big corporations continue to monopolize distribution, performance, and search. We need a renaissance of anti-trust legislation and enforcement in the US. IMO, companies should be kept small enough to have at least a dozen competing players in a market. We already see what it's like to have a half dozen (which are colluding), so let's try forcing it to be double -- and suing the pants off of their officers for colluding -- and see what happens.