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This is definitely last minute - but hey, I'm rocking my blog.

Information is a commodity. Which means that there is supply and demand and what better place to find information? The internet.

Computerization has done a lot for our society. We now have instantaneous access to anyone in the entire world. As Baudrillard puts it best, information technology undermines reality - so we end up managing our INTERNET self which is all but a reflection of our REAL self. They are perceived as one and the same - but maybe they aren't, like anyone needs to know (lol).

Music moves over the internet the same way information does. Digital has allowed for music to be transported from an analog medium, the CD, to computers and from there - you can do whatever you want with it. That is, provided there is no DRM to stop you from doing so.

Even with the advent of DRM people have found ways to get around the "system" of ownership. The music industry wants you to buy, they want you to own. What they don't want you to do is have full control. They can tell you what you can or cannot put your music onto. They can tell you how many times you can play something back. Sounds pretty limiting, huh?

The counterculture of the internet is to push for freedom, in all things. Information should be free for everyone to distribute and consume in the same sense that music should be free so that people can listen to it and share in its joys and sorrows.

What do you think? Should music be free for everyone? I'm sure not many people feel sad about getting music off the internet for free. I mean after all, you're just robbing the music industry of its profits.

But hey, it's like Robin Hood - give to the poor and steal from the rich, right?