Can professional musicians make enough money playing live gigs to forego royalties from recordings? Because if technologies like Napster et al. prevail, and no way is found to make people pay for recorded music, and more and more people get CD burners and download music for free, this question will become more and more relevant. If the answer is no, then we will have a world without professional musicians.

On the issue of mixing morality and capitalism: Morality applies to all of life, if it applies at all. If there is some area of your life which is free from ethical scrutiny, what you're saying is that there is some area of your life where you admit you're doing wrong, or want the right to do wrong. Which is wrong.

Just my li'l ol' opinions.

Alex