Also, this:
"Make buying music easier than pirating music and the money will follow."
Go check out The Oatmeal's "Games Of Thrones" comic. It's the same situation.

Why am I, a musician, disagreeing with this guy David Lowery so much? It's not about accepting "thievery", and the "Free Culture" isn't corporate. It's a physical development of technology changing. Anyone can make music, and that music is a better quality than ever before. Everyone can share it. How can you commercially charge for something like this? It's not unvalued by this generation because we're all thieves, it's unvalued because there's so damn much of it everywhere.

There will never stop being people who want to make music for nothing. How can you charge for something an ever-increasing number of people want to make for zero, zilch? Musicians SHOULD be paid handsomely but the universal streaming service is the closest to a model we can get in this situation without winding the clocks back on technology.

If anything, this is reason to celebrate, because if you can't money from music, we might see the end of the profiteering corporate music industry. I never made money from 12 years of the standard model; not making any money in the future doesn't scare me, and doesn't stop me wanting to make music. The future may not be that much better this way, but it sure as hell can't be much worse.