content: I keep hoping musicians and other artists will one day get their chance at killing off the giant distribution corporations so we can finally have direct access between creators and consumers.  These companies will never die, but I ask you, do they need to? They create jobs, which, disgusting as their work might be, are valuable. And now, here in the internet age, content creators have ways to work around these licensing companies in a way they never have been able to. Yes, Sony as a company is scum, and a fucking cancer to creative development (for instance, thanks to a false positive contentID match, Sony Music now owns the sound I make when I cough, not me), but they are no longer our only option. If you look on youtube, beatport, bandcamp, soundcloud, and dozens of other sites, big and small, you see individuals pushing their own music, or in some cases, larger channels working to promote individual artists by collecting similar musicians' work into one place, which is, remember, exactly how Sony formed in the first place, but here, their presence can only be good. Where do we draw the line? Or do we just ignore the bad, try to prevent them from doing damage to the good, and let everyone promote their music as they choose. That's my preferred option, though I do have plenty of reason to hate certain companies *cough* Sony *cough cough* (oops). Doesn't keep me from calling them out on their bullshit, though.