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The Recording Industry's Failed Digital Strategy

Posted by kdawson on from the north-winds-of-change dept.

An anonymous reader sends us a link to the Toronto Star, where Michael Geist has a terrific article on how the record labels got the Internet completely wrong. While somewhat specific to Canada, the article' arguments are more broadly applicable. The article links together the misplaced reliance on DRM and the Canadian industry's advocacy for increasing levies on blank media to demonstrate just how wrong-headed this strategy has turned out to be.

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  1. Re:Blank media taxing by Dunbal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh an a decent temperature - it was bloody 40 degrees C last weekend :(

          You'll trade that for -40 C? You aussies are nuts, eh?

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  2. Re:Greed by Dunbal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Next they will tax our minds.

          Most of the music they publish DOES tax our mind... pun intented ;)

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  3. Re:Blank media taxing by pyro_peter_911 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'll trade that for -40 C? You aussies are nuts, eh?
    -40 C? I'm an American, you insensitive clod, what's that in degrees Fahrenheit?

    Peter

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  4. Re:RIAA's entire business model has evaporated by Watson+Ladd · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone should introduce a bill revoking their corporate charters. Right now they are just delaying the inevitable. Call it the "Mercy to Recording Companies Act of 2007".

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