So Spotify is finally open to U.S http://www.spotify.com/us/hello-america/. Would I dare to hope that finally record industry is considering respecting consumer and delivering something instead of blaming that pirating is reason why profits go down?

Which reminds me; I can’t remember where I heard it, but in a long run, markets tend to remove layers between manufacturers and consumers.  And music industry has extremely complex structure of layers :)