Digital Music's 2001 Winners and Losers

An Anonymous Coward writes: "MP3 Newswire is running two articles that contain their top 8 MP3 winners for 2001 as well as those who top the loser category. So who is this year's #1 winner? The legal industry for all the billable hours they got to roll up thanks to RIAA and MPAA lawsuits. It's a pretty interesting read and the two articles solicit reader opinions on other potential contenders. I can think of Dmitri Sklyarov right off the bat, but I admit I'm not sure if he won for getting the charges dropped or lost for getting arrested in the first place. Rolling Stone has also run their own digital music winners and losers list for 2001."

Comments

Re:Biased articles

[Zillatron]

... it's just lame now.

No, no. Lame is just the encoder...

Law

[t_allardyce]

So who is this year's #1 winner? The legal industry for all the billable hours they got to roll up thanks to RIAA and MPAA lawsuits.

If the law is so complex that you need a degree to understand it, and so full of holes that you can hire someone to win for you just by finding them.. then isn't something wrong? if an OS had similar problems - loopholes/bugs then no-one would take it ser...... oh, yeah, now i get it...

The Matrix

[Fissure_FS2]

where the promise of unlimited communication becomes instead a reality where our lives have been invaded by machines that control every word we say and hear

Great... where's Neo when you need him?

The Matrix has you, consumers.

IANAL

[MicroBerto]

... but I sure wish I was!!

The MP3 trial alone brought over $130 million for the major music labels.