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I totally support this. I'm doing a summer internship in San Francisco and one of my favorite parts of living here is being able to see fantastic local music i

I totally support this. I'm doing a summer internship in San Francisco and one of my favorite parts of living here is being able to see fantastic local music in small venues. I've been going to a cafe in the Mission where I can just hang out after work and listen to a jazz group play from around 8:30 until midnight. I noticed that as a result of seeing live music in my spare time, my consumption of recorded music has dropped dramatically. I pretty much only put on my headphones when I go for a run (I will occasionally listen to an album while I'm programming, but I prefer not to).

Zigurd 12y ago
This is already the reality, and always has been. Recorded performances enable 0.0001% of professional and "semi-pro" musicians to earn a living from recorded performances. For everyone else, life is as it was before recorded performances: You perform live, and you may have a day job, maybe teaching music, maybe something unrelated to music. If the money from recorded performances goes away, the impact on music as an artform will be nil.