Attention "Recording Industry Association of America" This Wired.com article is for you! Here's a sample of the article:

In a January 2003 paper called "The Music Business and the Big Flip," Shirky wrote that instead of record labels filtering what people hear, the industry should be throwing everything into the public domain and allowing the public to choose what is popular through systems like collaborative filtering.

A working 'publish, then filter' system that used our collective judgment to sort new music before it gets played on the radio or sold at the record store would be a revolution."

Take note RIAA.