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["Kurt Schlatzer" <kurt AT kurtschlatzer.com>]

I watched the Open Mic thingy on TechTV today regarding this issue. I was
shocked that they didn't discuss one of the leading reasons RIAA is going
after downloading. The fact that people are discovering that there is life
(quality music and musicians) outside of the record companies' laboratory
experiments they call "artists" has them sleepless. They are completely
threatened by not being able to manage the youth of today (and their
wallets) by controlled exposure to the crap they pass as music these days.
They are terrified that someone might discover that, oh, Jimi Hendrix is
incredible. They don't make as much on older bands. They don't want someone
like Jimi Hendrix making a post-mortem run at the charts again.

Rambling again, off to bed.

Kurt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Tom
> Boucher
> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 11:22 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] EFF petition against RIAA tactics
>
>
>
> On Sunday, September 14, 2003, at 09:21 PM, Ian Meyer wrote:
>
> > i signed as well. and they blow more than grits.
> >
> >
> > On Sep 14, 2003, at 8:51 PM, Jim Ray wrote:
> >
> >> i signed.  riaa blows grits.
> >>
>
>
> That's not nice to say that about the grits.
>
> Though they are within their rights to sue, they're fricken stupid to
> do so.   They could have attempted to come out with an alternative to
> Napster, but they want more control.
>
> The reason iTunes Music Store has worked so well is that it actually
> works and lets you do what you want short of giving music to other
> people digitally.
>
> I've yet to attempt to do something with my purchased ITMS songs that I
> couldn't do before.  I can listen to them on both of my computers, and
> I can burn them to a CD to listen to them in my car.
>
> Here's hoping that iTMS for Windows makes a difference.  If 3% of the
> computer population buys 10 Million songs, wonder what the other 96%
> (1% is Linux) will do
>
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