Radiohead - In Rainbows: An approach that could change it all?

Speaking of the RIAA and copyrights, Radiohead announced the release of their 7th album recently. The story here isn't the announcement, although fans like me are very excited, but the release approach. They intend to make it available for download and allow the "consumer" to set the price. In my opinion, this is the way any work of art should be delivered. This isn't the first bold move in the music industry, if you look around you'll see examples of other artists opening their vision. One of the most notable "vision changes" was highlighted in David Bowie's interview with the New York times where he stated "The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years, and authorship and intellectual property is in for such a bashing.". So, if we do the math on this theory, the music recording/distribution industry will be non-existent by the end of 2012. I think it will change sooner than that.