"I do very well and owe much to my audience."

Good for you. And it IS your right to allow folks to download material you do that is common ground or written by you personally. It is NOT within your rightd to do a Dylan song and then allow people to download that for free, because Dylan is the writer and he is therefore entitled to the writer's royalty. Notice, all that and not ONE bad word.

Jim, stop talking down to folks. Many of us have a history in music, good bad or indifferent, and the thread is about sharing views, not just pushing our own points of view.