Perhaps the internet will lead to musicians who are in it only for the music, the self-expression and the ego boost, not for the money. Maybe the truth is that

Perhaps the internet will lead to musicians who are in it only for the music, the self-expression and the ego boost, not for the money. Maybe the truth is that it has always been this way. Maybe musicians didn't ask to be paid for doing what they love. Maybe record companies just realised they could profit recording and distributing a musician's music. And the musicians were quite happy to be paid. But once record companies give a musician this "easy money", musicians are unlikely to ever want to sacrafice that benefit. Eventually it becomes viewed as an entitlement. Digital recording and the internet means we don't need record companies to distribute music anymore. Will musicians stop making music? Will the quality of music decline? These are very weak arguments with no evidence to support them.