...If people will want to pay for that model. Not everybody will - this is absolutely certain. So, there is still some space for physical media being around for the rest.

Are you sure? There are already music albums that you can't buy in stores.

The free market serves only the masses. Everybody else can only hope to buy what they want.

I am sure I will never, ever go streaming, if that means cultural consumption linked to my identity.

If there will be unavailable goods or services, I will be forced to do without.

Children being born now will come into a world with no concept of either privacy or ownership.

Children being born these days will probably have parents to teach them that, and will be exposed to past culture, unless civilization fully collapses, and will understand privacy and ownership naturally, as they do not need to see those concepts around to understand them and "want" them.

The presumption with that line of thought is that "people will WANT the album at all" and/or "WANT at any price". These are implicit assumptions you are failing to acknowledge/mention.

And they are NOT generally valid.

For example, I stopped listening to broadcast radio in the 1990s - I've never missed it and I've done without quite happily.

I stopped watch any of the mainstream TV networks in the 2000s - I've never missed it and I've done without quite happily.

I've never used a music streaming service to this day - I've never missed it and I've done without quite happily.

No one piece of media is SO VALUABLE that it's irreplaceable or necessary to have access to. NONE.

I'm not a slave to whatever emotional beast would DEMAND I live crappy music or music only available from streaming. It can always be substituted either with music from other sources or living without it entirely.

If Justine Bieber was wiped from existence, my life would not change one iota. Same goes for pretty much ALL other "artists" today - and that's made easier because most are pure garbage without any musical talent anyway. Want to put up barriers to entry preventing me from getting garbage? OK. Thanks, I guess?

It will turn out like the Saints football tickets - they can't even give them away.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/get-woke-go-broke-n...

Yes, there will be people who want the album. Or at least the song. For example, people who heard a song in a club and used a music fingerprinting service like Shazam to find it.

>And they are NOT generally valid.

you make this statement, but then you just have a bunch of examples where it is not specifically valid for you.

Audio Hijack to the rescue.