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An article from Forbes about whether large corporations' opinions are right or wrong naturally is going to lead to a predetermined answer. And when that article quotes an executive of a company that has every reason to support the established music industry and a professor who thinks that handing over your name, email address, and postal address (none of which you need to provide to purchase music offline) is a "small thing", it's even Forbes-ier. When the article headline includes "steal it anyway" (how can you steal something that's free, if it comes to that?) I think a certain amount of bias is revealed as well. So I don't think this counts as valid proof of anything, especially not a contention supported by someone who is firmly and immovably on the large publishers' side.
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