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Conference probably started
with napkins cleaning off powder streaks above the mouth, . . and donuts weren't served. Nothing else much explains their decades of anti-consumer, thoroughly pro Industry takes on price fixing, copyright bolstering, Fair Use whithering and categorizing most all consumers as pirates or potential thieves even within the desires and rights of Fair Use and the Home Recording Acts. They've created a world where consumers have a right to backup their purchases but can not legally use the tools to do so. To them, backup means buy an additional full priced copy and stick it in a vault.

Unfortunately, Steve Jobs wasn't available to smack them over the heads with a giant whack a mole mallot, barbed for their pleasure.
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Independents: Sieze the Day!  P. Douglas | 02/27/07
Steve Job's transparent gesture  John Zern | 02/27/07
Um hasn't Steve Jobs been on record for a very long time  Laff | 02/28/07
When iTunes first launched....  tic swayback | 02/28/07
Deeds, not words  John Zern | 02/28/07
Money where mouth is  tic swayback | 02/28/07
Do we know every detail of Appl'e's contract with the Music Industry?  Laff | 02/28/07
How would that affect movies?  tic swayback | 02/28/07
Don't know about your second point and I admit I'm curious.  Laff | 02/28/07
Cleanup and change heart  Patanjali | 02/27/07
Two Things  marlinj@... | 02/27/07
Quite true - overall music quality has been steadily declining  archerjoe | 02/28/07
HAHA!!! Priceless quote!!!  NonZealot | 02/27/07
NonZealot...  MacVet | 02/27/07
But I can see his point  John Zern | 02/27/07
Re: NonZealot...  999ad@... | 02/28/07
Your priceless quote is BS  mrlinux | 02/27/07
uh...oh!  Linux Geek | 02/28/07
hypocrisy...  mrlinux | 02/28/07
One thing to consider  TripleII | 02/27/07
iPod Borg  KrUshPruF | 02/28/07
right over your head.  shraven | 03/01/07
Consumers have spoken, DRM is dead as a business model.  TripleII | 02/27/07
Couldnt have said it better.!!!!  mrlinux | 02/28/07
Bad news guys  tic swayback | 02/28/07
Look at it this way fella's  Laff | 02/28/07
"There's more opportunities to monetize the music."  ejhonda | 02/28/07
Conference probably started  Boot_Agnostic | 02/28/07
Sony's technological solutions  GrumpyOldMan | 02/28/07
A hundred years ago...  Henry Miller | 02/28/07
Record companies still don't get it  jtg61 | 02/28/07
The answer is right under their noses...  BitTwiddler | 02/28/07
the brilliant idiot  shraven | 02/28/07
Music companies already have the best marketing...  Anton Philidor | 02/28/07
Music DRM and Revenue  Jaytmoon | 02/28/07
Well-deserved losses  AES2 | 02/28/07
I'm late to the party so this probably won't get read but...  Beat a Dead Horse | 03/01/07

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