Why drop the people? Just continue to carry the songs with no samples. A simple message "We're sorry but this artist refuses to let us serve you with a sample of the song before you purchase" should suffice.
They'll get back in line in no time when the sales plummet.

Or, you know, you can drive to work in something comparable to a Volt in size, weight, and performance that's powered by a good old internal combustion engine (diesel anyone?) rather than a truck.

So do you need big labels for quality? Well, you have me there, no indie label could match the musical genius of somebody like say, Brittney Spears.
To be honest, it's not the labels' fault that most people prefer to listen to Britney (not Brittney) Spears. Sure there is marketing involved, but that's their job. Your definition of music quality is irrelevant, the labels delivered to most people music they want to listen to.

Sounds like you've never been to a doctor.

The main difference between science and religion is not that one is true and the other is false. It's that one is falsifiable and the other is not.

Indeed, they may even give you the book for free with enough ads stashed in.

Doesn't matter, you'll need to decrypt the output anyway so the analyzer won't be able to benefit from the analysis result, only the client can:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Using such a scheme, one could homomorphically evaluate any circuit, effectively allowing the construction of programs which may be run on encryptions of their inputs to produce an encryption of their output. Since such a program never decrypts its input, it could be run by an untrusted party without revealing its inputs and internal state. The existence of a fully homomorphic cryptosystem would have great practical implications in the outsourcing of private computations, for instance, in the context of cloud computing

Except that there was no production company and that's not a commercial. It's a home brewed video shot by the researchers who created the software themselves.

I own a PS3 and run it (literally) for 2 weeks at a time
Oh come on, it doesn't take that long to install a game on the PS3.

You, sir, sound like an elitist pig.
And before you ask me to "learn a thing or two about that part of the world" I should let you know that I grew up in that part of the world.

Some would have thought that a bunch of convicts shipped to British colonies should not have the right to freedom of speech and expression because knows what they can do with that to upset the queen, yet look what happened when those very same convicts got their freedom of speech.

The idea that you're smart enough to use your freedom of speech while a whole other people is is both stupid and pompous.