I suppose I could see your point if he had made the argument that it didn't deserve the same copyright software and apps get, except he didn't. AFAICT he simply said music will survive and perhaps implied copyright will likely change significantly in the coming decades.
Let them die because historically it's just a recent trend that allowed only a few to get rich.
How does that not exactly describe us and the internet, especially when we leverage the same laws and protections? The only difference between us and them is someone has to hack our servers to get our IP.
especially when we leverage the same laws and protections?
As we, do you mean a few big companies, patent trolls or the bigger set of startups? I'm not a lawyer or a big expert in startups, but it seems to me that the latter do not leverage copyright laws that much.