Sure, some of the hardcore copyfighters would hate it -- it'd feel too much like a "music tax" for their taste, and they won't rest until the music companies have been killed in vengeance for all the bad stuff they've done since 1996 -- but it'd make the entertainment giants seem reasonable, and it would make anyone who disagreed with them seem unreasonable. They'd have the easy sell: "We want to stop suing your kids, but these crazy infohippies won't let us!" '

I was surprised by this. Is a blanket license really something the activists are wiling to live with? It seems like a terrible compromise to me. It seems like an admission that the record companies deserve a business model.

Seriously, I think that we seriously need to consider letting copyright, or parts of it, die. At least lets speculate about the consequences. Music seems like a good place to experiment. (A)The sky will not fall if music is not made. (B) Music will almost definitely still be made.

The losers are the components of the recording industry. But we are under no moral obligation to keep them in business.