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[Michael S Czeiszperger <czei AT webperformanceinc.com>]

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This whole trend is really scary. The RIAA is simultaneously planning a 
campaign of lawsuits against individuals, while working through their lackeys 
in Congress to allow them to erase files from individuals hard drives.

The justification for the lawsuit compaign is outrageous-- a mere 5% drop in 
sales in the middle of a recession.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/775684.asp

"Suits against individual Internet users - particularly if the defendants 
aren't seeking to create profitable operations based on their online music 
activities - could cause a backlash from some of the record industry's own 
fans and biggest customers. But many music executives, watching revenue sag 
as home compact-disc copying has soared, feel that they have little choice if 
they are to save their business. World-wide music sales dropped 5% last 
year..."

I don't want to give the impression that I'm for the wholesale stealing of 
intellectual property; I'm not. The problem here is there's a huge potential 
for online music, and the industry is doing everything it can to stop all 
advances, both legal and illegal, while offering up no alternatives of their 
own.

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Michael Winslow Czeiszperger
czei at webperformanceinc d o t c o m


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