This paragraph better captured the essence of the article:
“Universities also have another reason for reducing illegal downloading: The large amount of bandwidth used by movie and music downloads chokes universities’ computer networks. The subscription services complement university filtering programs that can identify users who are misusing school networks. “The bandwidth that I recovered saved us $75,000 a year in network costs,” says Matthew Jett Hall, assistant vice chancellor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn…”

Hey, I took Jazz for Slackers with Phil Schaap some 9 years ago at the dawn of file-sharing, and it annoyed me that we were still making copies of tapes to listen to Duke and Coltrane. Admittedly my collection is more respectable now, but at the time it would have made perfect sense to have DRM-limited music.

This is just another case where the aims of “citizen media” get mired in “I want free stuff.” For every genius like Danger Mouse who doesn’t flinch in the face of copyright law, there’s a thousand of us who just remain the audience.

And we remain the audience, not because of a childhood lacking in music, but in lacking interest in playing an instrument.