Should Musicians get Paid?

I side with mr arrington more or less. what scares me is the fate of another kind of creative talent, namely software developers. marginal cost of replicating my program is about the same as Braggs’ song.
As a software developer i can not do live performance. What do I do?
What do I do?
Seriously speaking, developers found the way of giving out light version and charge for the pro version. Web developers try and live from the ads.
So may be, just may be musicians should copycat. Publish half-songs on the Bebo! Publish songs with off-key singing in the middle! No wait, ad model is even better. Replace the last verse with something about Coca Cola. Like:
“Hey Hey Hey you got a free version of the song, drink coca cola or better yet download the adfree song for a buck, yea yea”.

One another model I just dreamed up is for musicians to really price their free songs as an “investment”. Consider this. A musician comes to a social net and says - I want to publish on your net. Depending on my materials’ popularity I want some stock options. We are talking about some real real small micro percentage. It is not unreasonable to ask. I can imaging a social net that would like to attract people doing things like that.
Why not? Allocate 3% for musicians just like you allocate and VCs expect you to, 15% for employees. Bum musicians will not get a dime because nobody will be downloading or recommending their stuff. So it is popularity / merit based. This is truly venture based. Even better, since songs are replicable, unline VC money, a musician can place his songs in several places.

Musicians of the world, unite.

Wait a sec. It is too late. Popular social nets are already too big to cut you in. Sorry. Go performe live in a restourant. I heard that is where Bebo founders will be spending their money. That is where the money for musicians is.