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In August 2003, Holmes Wilson and Nicholas Reville created Downhill Battle, a music activism organization that wants to create a decentralized music business and a level playing field for independent musicians and labels.

Now, along with fellow Downhill Battlers Tiffiniy Cheng, Nick Nassar, Rebecca Laurie, and a handful of other dedicated staffers, Reville and Wilson work with a myriad of volunteers to spread the word around the US and around the world.

Downhill Battle's web site states its plan is "to explain how the major [record labels] really work, develop software to make filesharing stronger, rally public support for a legal p2p compensation system, and connect independent music scenes with the free culture movement."

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When you ask people about what the future of music will look like, you'll often get a wide variety of ideas on the subject. It's probably because in the last ten years, so much of it has changed (largely due to the Internet becoming a delivery method) that it barely resembles the old model. Since all the rules are changed (and are continuing to change each day), the time is ripe to make up "new rules."

But as Dave Kusek (co-author of "The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution" and Vice President of Berklee Media at the Berklee College of Music) details in the new book, the new model looks an awful lot like the model from 70 years ago, where musicians made their money from performing and other revenue sources and not from discs made of shellac, wax, vinyl or plastic where were released by record labels (or your friendly neighborhood multi-national conglomerate) and sold to you and I. But where does that leave the record labels?

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