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The market will decide

Two things make me a bit more optimistic than you seem to be:

1) Long term, the market will decide. Buying music or paying for movies are luxury items. If the RIAA/MPAA continue their push, and make their products less and less attractive, people will stop buying them, and spend their entertainment dollar elsewhere. This will hasten the demise of the big entertainment companies, which leads to part 2

2) The demise of the big entertainment companies. Record companies no longer have anything of value to offer an artist. Smart artists are catching on to this, and are instead running their own businesses, outsourcing things like distribution and promotion, and keeping the bulk of their earnings, something they couldn't do with a major label contract. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is a prime example. As the mega-corporations die off in the entertainment industry, we'll instead be dealing with individual artists, who are less likely to treat their fans with such disrespect.

Here's another horror story for you by the way. Early last year, the RIAA sued a dead woman for sharing songs. They sent a warning letter to Gertrude Walton, who was deceased. Her daughter sent a copy of her death certificate to the RIAA's lawyers, who went ahead and filed the lawsuit anyway. Brilliant:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/05/riaa_sues_the_dead/

Posted by: tic swayback   Posted on: 04/25/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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