] "Music," he explained, "is different" from other
] intellectual property. Not Karl Marx different - this
] isn't latent communism. But neither is it just "a piece
] of plastic or a loaf of bread." The artist controls just
] part of the music-making process; the audience adds the
] rest. Fans' imagination makes it real. Their
] participation makes it live. "We are just troubadours,"
] Tweedy told me. "The audience is our collaborator. We
] should be encouraging their collaboration, not treating
] them like thieves."

] "If Metallica still needs money," [Wilco frontman Tweedy] almost
] whispered, "then there's something really, really wrong." He
] would protest this extremism, he explained, by living a
] different life. By inviting, by creating, by inspiring
] music, and by ignoring wars about plastic.
]
]
] If this war is to end, it needs authentic voices. We have
] had enough preaching. The outrage is beginning to wear
] thin. It will take bands like Wilco, who live a different
] example and whisper an explanation to those who want to
] hear. Peace takes a practice. One that only artists can
] make real.

[ Lessig on the music war. -k]