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Motive is always money
If the music industry doesn't have to maintain hardware in the numbers they currently do, that means more profit. Production and warehousing are the biggest costs (far higher than artist royalties, by the way). Make the music available in the methods I outlined and the profits increase. It sure beats having to suck up all the unsold copies of Lance Bass' latest "album."

The recording industry is wrong because it refuses to adapt. Morality is just a bonus...
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This should be fun  vferrara | 03/30/04
Compulsory licensing  buxxmaster | 03/30/04
But it doesn't solve the problem  voska | 03/30/04
Could not have summed it up better!!!  bchesmer | 03/30/04
This backfireing big time  voska | 03/30/04
stow it berman  zijiang | 03/30/04
so what happens when...  ryusen | 03/30/04
(NT) lol, I can't wait  zijiang | 03/30/04
Hatch keeps pitching  AbsolutelyNot | 03/30/04
Suits Happen!!!!!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/30/04
Lawyers love it(NT)  voska | 03/30/04
"First let's kill all the lawyers!" - William Shakespeare  AbsolutelyNot | 03/30/04
When your business model has outlived its viability..  B.O.F.H. | 03/30/04
What hogwash!!!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/30/04
Except one thing  voska | 03/30/04
Another false premise.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/30/04
Try reading the whole post  voska | 03/30/04
Simply isn't true.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/30/04
What's that have to do with the problem  voska | 03/31/04
blah blah blah IT'S STEALING!!!!!!!  cybershoplifter | 03/30/04
why should they change?  ryusen | 03/30/04
Change the out-of-date people  AbsolutelyNot | 03/30/04
problem with your argument...  ryusen | 03/30/04
Motive is always money  AbsolutelyNot | 03/30/04
money is a short term goal...  ryusen | 03/31/04
blah blah blah IT'S STEALING!!!!!!!  cybershoplifter | 03/30/04
Whadda know ... just like SCO!  troy@... | 03/31/04
RIAA  aquabob | 03/31/04
Re: Business Model  Rabid Conservative | 03/31/04
RIAA shouldnt dictate  ParadigmOdyssey | 03/30/04
the music industry made $32.2 billion in 2002  Hanover Phist | 03/30/04
Harvard Study - p2p doesn't kill CD sales  cybershoplifter | 03/30/04
I agree....  wayne.p | 03/31/04
Is the industry listening?  AbsolutelyNot | 03/30/04
So far, Canada says no dice!  KHEL_z | 04/01/04

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