Entertainment industry doesn't get it
Definitely, the entertainment industry doesn't get it. It is not about who owns the pathways to music, or how innovative their content may be. The prodcut of the entertainment industry has been turned into a commodity, and all their posturing and threats to their free distributors won't change it a bit.
The "extreme copyright" business model, by which a group owns all rights to a particualr creation, is evolving to another in which collaboration and sharing are much more productive that restricted distribution. It is a simple as availability:
Whenever you are downloading a song, or an image, and suddely Mickey Mouse (tm) pops up and demands your acquiescence to the draconian rules of use the owners of said rat might wnat to impose on you, you as a user have the option to go and download the work of some other rat, not so self-conscious about appering in countless arenas. And since we are talking about the spread of a meme, by which the easiest ones to reproduce preserve themselves, it is easy to see who will be the winners on the long run.
This absurd fight of the media industry to regain absolute prominence reminds me of the efforts of the Catholic Church before Lutero, when they were the sole interprets of the Bible, and any other interpretation of the doctrine was severely persecuted and punished. Oh, yeah, the Inquisition held its power in what is known now as thirld World countries, specially America Latina, and fostered a culture of deception, corruption and restricted civill liberties. But as a result of that, other people were able to capitalize on the success of the extractive activities of the Spaniards on the New World. And a whole New Woreld was born.
Can you say Free Content?