I completely Agree. A big part of the reason why illegal sharing of music files take place is that the industry has been doing its best to remain irrelevant. In an age of digital content, the music industry and its association has done its best to stop the spread of digital music in favor of an old CD based format. What the consumer wants/needs have been irrelevant. The old formats provide them with larger margins then digital distribution. As an Internet Lawyer who drafts many EULAs and online compliance strategies for file sharing sites, i think that a change in their strategy toward a full embrace of all distribution technologies, whatever they are today or tomorrow, would go a long way toward reducing incidents of infringements.
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I completely Agree. A big part of the reason why illegal sharing of music files take place is that the industry has been doing its best to remain irrelevant. In an age of digital content, the music industry and its association has done its best to stop the spread of digital music in favor of an old CD based format. What the consumer wants/needs have been irrelevant. The old formats provide them with larger margins then digital distribution. As an Internet Lawyer who drafts many EULAs and online compliance strategies for file sharing sites, i think that a change in their strategy toward a full embrace of all distribution technologies, whatever they are today or tomorrow, would go a long way toward reducing incidents of infringements.