Two quick but good links on music's fate

Two quick but good links on music's fate:
How pop stars are becoming like novelists (which reminds me of a quote from the TV coverage of the Queen's Jubilee 'the crowd are treating William and Harry like rock stars' - remember when rock stars were 'treated like royalty' (The two princes being respectively 2nd and 3rd in line to the throne...)).

Wired realises that DRM is a value destruction mechanism. No-one wants to buy locked up music. See lots of posts below and back to last year...