Dear concert ticket industry: I know the entire world is heading in this direction, for better or worse, and I know you haven't done anything more yet than announce an acquisition, and I know this request is probably in vain, but no, I do not want you to store my face in a database and I do not want you to associate my face with my RIHANNA ticket, and I do not want you to scan my face when I walk into the show. For a million reasons, including convenience, flexibility and (completely justified) paranoia, I'd much rather show you a bar code (or, hell, even hand you a paper ticket). Also, I'm going to be really mad when it turns out the main benefit of knowing the exact identify of every soul in the arena isn't to fight scalpers or keep us safe but to sell our biometric data to advertisers. But hey, if you want to redirect the R&D budget you're using to get scanners to recognize my face as I stroll into the HOLLYWOOD BOWL and instead use the money to develop scanners that can automatically detect a bar code without me having to slow down, I'd be good with that... Here's a compelling argument for why major labels are dumping SPOTIFY stock like 18th century Americans dumping British tea into Boston harbor. OK, it's not that bad. And compelling doesn't automatically equal correct. But TIM INGHAM is playing solid digital-music-biz chess here. Key, possibly frightening, takeaway: The big streaming audience waiting in the wings is baby boomers. And Spotify may or may not be where they'll go... What if a band did this? Could LORD HURON claim the word LORD? Could CARDI B own her B? Who would get "LIL"?... Your next GOOGLE assistant: JOHN LEGEND... Layoff watch: UPROXX. REVOLT MEDIA. POPSUGAR... RIP BIG T, GAYLE SHEPHERD and DICK WILLIAMS.