…mmm… very philosophic. Not sure if unlimited availability of recorded music will make us desire live music more (is that what you are suggesting?).

Having said that, artificial and real scarcity will always be a characteristic of live music; while new technology has/will remove the artificial scarcity that copyright has created around recorded music (read movies etc), as well as eroding the real scarcity of recorded music brought about by the cost of producing a copy (which is almost 0 now). Scarcity is still one of the main selling points in the media industry (the emotional value of waiting four months for a movie being released in your country, and then waiting another 6 month to get your sweaty hands on the DVD).
I disagree that being able to listen to any piece of music deprives the experience of listening of its emotional value. The emotional value of music is the music itself…. removing the emotional value created by scarcity wont change that. Its still great or shit music, even if it’s free.

“…others are just multiplicating small habits which are still not institutionalised” what’s that? Jumping around in your bedroom

I think your basic assumption is that we will always desire what we can’t have… accepting the mantra of the “I am because I shop” aspirational society. I am not sure about that. I think that with unlimited availability of music people will start to judge it more based on its artistic merit, rather than the hype created by the media industry (lets face it, the Spice Girls had hits because of the hype/emotional value artificially created around them, not because the music had a lot of emotional value in itself).

Its conceivable that removing the emotional value attached to artificial scarcity will mean we go back to consuming what we need, rather than consuming what we desire… back to the early 20th Century when shopping was a “necessity” rather than a “leisure activity” or “self expression”. I guess you see that with downloads – when people first hit the pirate bay they tend to download massive amount of stuff (desire), end up deleting most of it, and then only download what they need (thats when people start downloading single song or albums, rather than the entire back catalogue with all B sides).

Så, vad ville du ha sagt?

Det är fint att tänka i de materialistiska termer som du nämnde en gång – i vilka ekologier/miljöer kan dessa replikatorer leva vidare, fortplanta sig? I ditt fall, dubstep-ritorneller, i närheten av feta baselement; i mitt fall, bilden av oss som gubbslem, i datorer upphookade till hög bandbredd på Humanisten vid Göteborgs Universitet.