I read a pretty interesting article, in Delta's Sky mag of all places, about GrooveShark and similar services. Companies that are successfully flourishing in sp

I read a pretty interesting article, in Delta's Sky mag of all places, about GrooveShark and similar services. Companies that are successfully flourishing in spite of piracy seem to have a common thread among them; they view piracy as the competition. They ask the 'right' questions such as "what is it that sucks about piracy", and "how do we make our service fill that hole?" Similarly, the question Valve asked (and answered brilliantly) was "how do we make our service more convenient than piracy?" I found it to be an interesting contrast to these old media behemoths that view piracy as something wholly different than user experience/convenience. The customers want fast access to content. Piracy is currently the only way to achieve that with a lot of the media owned by these aging corporations.