Independent record companies. This could be seen from two angles. The optimistic among you may argue that the online music revolution is a great chance for independent record companies to get their artists noticed. The pessimistic among you, however, could argue that these companies are going to get put out of business by these new musical technologies as it is a lot easier to download a song/album of a more obscure and less famous band than to go out and search for it. This, therefore will effectively put independent and minor record companies such as 4AD, asthmatic kitty and sounds familyre out of business leaving only the giants such as EMI and Universal with a chance of competing..........but that's only if you want to be pessimistic as i am more than willing to go out and search for the albums of more obscure bands.