If Napster or just the lack of airtight DRM means artistic content is being rampantly traded across CD-R equipped and broadband networked fans, then why aren't the media companies showing a drop in profits? That's what fellow nanocorp entrepreneur and information architect Michael Fraase poses in his latest blog entry on ARTS & FARCES internet : Music piracy not hurting recording industry after all.

By the way, just for the record, it's not the Grateful Dead who discovered the connection, Michael. This is how music lived for millenia before the artists, with superstars in their eyes, abdicated control to the profiteers. You may also want to compare the dictionary entries for "pirate", "bootlegger" and "profiteer" to see who's who in these debates; so long as we flip these terms around to the entertainment industry's definitions, we're playing by their rules, not our own.