“Artists will get paid in this world, but they’ll get paid differently and, I would contend, more.”

I think there are busness models that can co-exist with sharing. If you think about it there are a number of bussnesses that give away stuff for free, in order to make money somewhere else.

TV, Radio, Google, all of them make money through advertising but give away their service for free. The question is what busness model will work for artists. I doubt fans will want advertising on their music. A creative busness man will come up with something. The problem for the record companies is that the new bussness model may see them as an unnecessary middle man.

Like it or not (and businesses are certain to not like it very much), people can always trade, sell, or otherwise distribute their products, and barring heavy-handed contracts that would destroy the value of their products, there’s nothing that can be done about it. I’m actually surprised that radio-copying hasn’t become more popular or common, but that’s surely coming in the days when it’s too difficult to do easily in real life or online (read: never, I hope).