Comment Cause for applause?? (Score 1) 637
Well well.... here we are again. The decaying corpse of a business model that the RIAA upholds persists in its campaign to put out an inferno with lighter fluid. The tone of that sentence alone tells you how much I begrudge the wasted efforts in this field as opposed to appropriate market adaptations. .... but I applaud Marie being sued by the RIAA.
How in the world does one maintain such an untenable position? It's simple, really. The more truly innocent people the RIAA sics their dogs on, the less credibility they have when they lie about losing their money to unscrupulous thieves. I want the RIAA to go after Jane Doe who never touched a PC, or any other John Q. Public who never uses a computer. I want the toxicity level in the music consumer's blood to rise to the point of doing what should have been done a while ago: permitting market forces to crush competitors who do not innovate.
I will always feel for the artist who needs to get by on the $0.17 an album they may get from the big label pigs, but I will feel a lot better with the RIAA beaten from this current path, and P2P philosophy finally hitting music production.
How in the world does one maintain such an untenable position? It's simple, really. The more truly innocent people the RIAA sics their dogs on, the less credibility they have when they lie about losing their money to unscrupulous thieves. I want the RIAA to go after Jane Doe who never touched a PC, or any other John Q. Public who never uses a computer. I want the toxicity level in the music consumer's blood to rise to the point of doing what should have been done a while ago: permitting market forces to crush competitors who do not innovate.
I will always feel for the artist who needs to get by on the $0.17 an album they may get from the big label pigs, but I will feel a lot better with the RIAA beaten from this current path, and P2P philosophy finally hitting music production.
