Well, that sure didn't work. I start over.

I wonder if Guido was sued for making those little marks to attempt to record MUSIC???? Next came bars and staffs and, well, you know, the cat was out of the bag then! Music has gone from the ephemeral and unique to the infinitely reproducible and generic. The Brave New Digital World is still a wild frontier. Law and order will come but we don't really know in what form that may be. Right now, everybody and everything is at risk. As a child of the West and kind of a cowboy at heart, I like it, but it ain't a gonna last.

Some bright minds, some of you maybe, will hit upon a way to protect our property and identities and things will settle down. I hear it coming like a song on the wind. Someone catch it. Record it. Save it for all of us. We need it.