Whether you want it to be free or not, it&#x27;s effectively impossible to enforce scarcity over resources that can be trivially digitized. People don&#x27;t pay for music anymore because it&#x27;s very easy and low-risk to get it without paying for it, and the internet guarantees it&#x27;s going to stay that way. Even if you can get everyone to pay for Google Music, that&#x27;s $10&#x2F;mo from someone who used to spend $20&#x2F;CD and potentially bought several of those each month.<p>The fact is that it&#x27;s now much harder to collect money for musical recordings. I don&#x27;t think anything is going to change about that.