Seriously: I've got some business correspondence to catch up on, and lunch with a friend/media contact.

Then I'll be working at Ye Olde Nonprofit into the evening.

So the Political Joy will be back on duty sometime over the weekend.

In the meantime, please check out this site and discuss among yourselves.

I'm all for respecting intellectual property rights, myself, but when royalties go up to the point that an entire industry will be decimated by it—and most of the artists themselves are on the other side of the issue—things appear to have gone sideways in a serious way.

Yes, this entire discussion comes under the heading of "does the mainstream music industry have a death wish?" Perhaps they don't, though: after all, once you've secured a government-enforced monopoly on the main avenue through which new music is desseminated, you've got a chance of survival—by killing the competition.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 10:38 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 170 words, total size 1 kb.