RIAA, This Is Earth, Please Come In!

ccnull writes "You might remember George Ziemann as the musician who found his own music banned from eBay because it was recorded on CD-R. Now he's back with a new rant about the RIAA's statistics, which blame piracy for the dire condition of the music industry. What's to blame? Price hikes and fewer titles. The latest rant (including analysis of the RIAA's own data) is mainly circulating by email, here's a readable link. (As an interesting side note, Ziemann says that songs are really just ads for CDs, and thus should be freely traded.)"

Comments

no right to exist

[geoff lane]

The music industry (as opposed to the musicians) have no god given right to exist. They have ignored technology and now find that their product has little or no value to their customers. The savy musicians will soon start selling their music directly over the internet and may even find they make more money from that than the disgustingly small percentage they get from the industry.