With or without serious efforts to adapt to the new Internet-age reality, creators of recordable content are facing an up hill battle these days. Their whole career lifestyle is in jeopardy.

And if creators have it tough, staffers of industry firms have it worse; prospect of inexorable downsizing and unemployment.

I sometimes think industry types look to creators to spearhead the opposition because copyright theft is a much more potent argument than mere cries for help from a moribund industry.

I also think the “communist” analogy is not so off-mark. YouTube et al. have enabled the distribution of programs to mass audience at little cost to them as possible. That’s not capitalism.