RIAA Sequentially Repeating Edison's Mistakes?

An anonymous reader writes "George Ziemann has written the latest installment in his 'history repeats itself' series of articles regarding the record industry and the tactics utilized by their lobby, the RIAA. This time Ziemann focuses on the recent RIAA lawsuits against individuals who file-trade, and the search-and-seize missions against independent music stores. Slashdot posted his first two articles back in June."

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Re:Edison's "Mistakes"?

[CaptainCarrot]

Edison had a lot more going for him than just the movie industry. Remember the light bulb? Commercial electric power distribution? The phonograph? His stock ticker? Multiplex telegraph? And a couple of dozen others?

That's what made him obscenely rich. The movie industry was only a small part of his enterprise. That it became an even smaller part of it was, yes, because of the mistakes he made in trying to assure himself of a monopoly.