The RIAA’s vigilant army of lawyers has become its own worst enemy by spawning innovation that outpaces their legal protection. As a recently downed Muxtape contends with the crusade, out pops Opentape, the open source version, within two weeks. Anyone else see the pattern? RIAA sues for copyright infringement, and the open source version appears. RIAA sues for enabling discovery of illegal downloads and the discovery engine is domiciled in countries outside of the RIAA’s legal protection.  The next wave of innovation will be the decentralization of discovery and delivery services connected via open source APIs.  For example, Opentape presentation layer connected via API for torrent-like hosted bit.ly short URLs to stream encrypted audio from an Amazon S3-esque service redundantly domiciled in countries with no copyright protections uniquely identified and tagged by an open source version of Shazam.  Seem far fetched?  In an world where information yearns to be free, nothing is far fetched.