Music as a souvenir

Apparently music is still being relegated to an extra. Music is now like something you get at the bottom of a cereal box:

"Nokia, the telecommunications company, and the Universal Music Group, the recording company, said on Tuesday that they would offer unlimited free downloads of Universal songs to buyers of certain Nokia phones as a way to promote cellphones as media devices and to develop new revenue for a music industry struggling with piracy."

The real pirates are not the downloaders, but the companies that have seized the community of musicians that initially made a music industry possible.