Adrian Weckler

Yeah, well, I think certainly things like the emergence of streaming peer-to-peer network sharing, like they were definitely not an improvement.

They were going in the opposite direction.

Streaming now, to be fair, has progressed mostly because of the way in which people's copyright is being protected through

you know, a long complicated process of litigation and of having a framework in place now that is well established around how to license music that is then going to be streamed through a streaming platform.

Yeah, there's an element of that, but I think there's an element of the industry kind of growing up, like the Wild West kind of thing.

All content is free and we should just distribute it.

You know, it's not like it sounds great.

Yeah, well, I think that's one way of looking at it.

But I think...

The tech industry didn't get to where it is today voluntarily.

They were dragged.

They're true.

Oh, for sure.

the pugilist system that we're in yeah they will comply but you absolutely have to drag them there yeah and and you know i agree that it's access to music is way better today than it was before and streaming platforms are now beginning to pay people more fairly for their creative works

And that's really good.

Really, I suppose the next threat on the horizon is the thing we started talking about, which is another way of disseminating copyrighted music, which is through the underlying training of AI-generated tools.

And again, I don't think they're bad inherently, right?

So I think there's a lot to be said of having AI-generated, AI apps that help people create music

But they just have to recognize the copyright of this stuff that they've been trained on so that the people who contributed to the end product, the music creators, get fairly rewarded.

Yeah.