How can one reconcile a performing artist’s right to own and sell his or her work with another equally important imperative - preserving the historical record? There is no commercial recording of Callas singing Vespri, and posterity is fortunate that her interpretation survives. Nobody has ever come up with a satisfactory proposal for levying some sort of creatives’ fee for material freely loaded for internet broadcast, and unless all ticket holders for performances submit to a body search and have electronic equipment confiscated in the manner of airport security checkpoints, it will also be impossible to eliminate pirate recording. Given the current state of technology, the situation is simply uncontrollable and artists and the industry will be the inevitable losers, at least financially.