In reply to S.U.P.E.R.S.T.A.R.!..

@Keith - I agree with you in regards to the titles and accolades given for "sales" during this streaming error. Unfortunately people are SELECTIVELY purchasing music these days as SOME artists/groups don't have as hard a time selling as others. More so, they are consuming music freely at a higher rate than traditional consumption so it's either get on board and try to create something out of this or fall behind and miss out on revenue. It's a really tricky spot right now.

The best that we can hope for/strive for his a way to keep music from being illegally downloaded but I think a lot of people will question/fight it. It's like people say that Big Pharma make tons of money from treating the common cold rather than creating a medicine that can cure it. Do we want to create technologies that will prevent people from being able to down music onto the internet or more than one listening device or at at all? And if we do then how will the public perceive this? Perhaps as just another way for THE LABELS to keep making money or will they see it as a way to protect the artists and their investments?

I think this matter is too deep for this section but I agree with you. I think that an asterisk should be placed by the new "streaming" stats much like in baseball when people were found to have used performance enhancing drugs to inflate their stats. Ever player had an asterisk put by their stat or name.