Bob Ostertag: "Five years ago I put all of my recordings to which I hold the rights (about 15 CDs’ worth) on my website for free download. My website allows people to donate money for the tracks they download but puts no big pressure on them to do so, and I had no idea if anyone would or not. I can now report that very few people do[...] Raleigh Morgan noted (Letters, The Wire 329) that 106,000 new albums were released in the US in 2008, nearly three times the 36,000 released in 2000. The number of artists with MySpace pages escalated from 600,000 in 2005 to more than ten million in 2010 [...] This deluge of more music than anyone can hear will change the very meaning of ‘music’ in a profound way." Read on