I work with hundreds and hundreds of independent artists, and they just want a choice. People confuse giving it away for free with promotion; with this or that; with touring. They just want a choice about what happens with their stuff. Some of them might want to give away to build their touring business; some of them might want to charge two cents; some of them might want to charge ten cents. But without legislation to protect that choice, there's no motivation to continue to make the music and to make better music and to enrich our lives.
That, for us, really comes down to the protections and the choice of what they do with their material.