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  • From: "H. Wade Minter" <minter AT lunenburg.org>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Slate: Music industry's wounds are self-inflicted
  • Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:29:48 -0400 (EDT)

"The Recording Industry Association of America, which represents the five
major labels that dominate CD retailing, would like to blame much of the
slide on Internet music-file swapping. Yet there are many other causes,
including the fact that the big five are all units of troubled
multinationals?AOL Time Warner, Vivendi Universal, BMG, EMI, and Sony?that
are focused on short-term gain and have no particular interest in the
music biz. There's also been a recession, of course, and resistance to CD
prices that have grown much faster than the inflation rate. Perhaps the
most important factor, however, is the major labels' very success in
dominating the market, which has squelched musical innovation."

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2069732

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