I read this interesting article, this in relation with the intellectual property, so I decided to put it to you. This opinion article appeared in a Spanish newspaper, to read it and to verify if you are or not in agreement with him.
The law against the illegal downloadings does not go only against the majority of the internauts, but also against history. The operation of the rights of author in music is a connected industrial practice with the distribution of music in a hardware (the disc first, the CD later). Internet supposes a change in the way to make music, and in the new model no longer recorded music will be sold. The musicians will gain the life they did since it before the existence of discs and, as in 95% of they do it today to the cases: touching live.

Music will not disappear by this. Music became before the existence of the copyright, and it will be continued making music after the disappearance of the copyright. It is only necessary to think about patrimony of pop music that has been created without the shelter of any copyright. The musicians will continue gaining the life have done as always it, and the downloadings free will be a good way to become publicity.

What yes it will disappear system is to star and the record industry. But this does not have anything to do with the unloadings. The product of the record industry already is anachronistic, and by the laws of the market it does not have another possibility that to disappear, as well as the constructors did of cars of horses at the beginning of century XX.