Business Week on file-sharing: “As long as file-sharing is rampant, music labels, artists, and songwriters have little reason to invest in or promote the creative, flexible digital services that music lovers crave. “
Isn’t that a line that’s swallowed the RIAA’s argument hook, line and sinker? The fact that file-sharing is rampant is at least as much to do with the fact that there aren’t any creative, flexible digital services that John Q. Public can use, and nature abhors a vacuum. It didn’t stop Apple from launching iTunes, and if the competition is the type of brain-dead, restrictive garbage that typifies Pressplay etc, it’s not entirely suprising that they did. Surely the fact that more people are sharing files than voted for Dubya is a flag-waving, foghorn-blowing, brass band-accompanied signal that there’s a huge gap in the market that is waiting to be filled – something that the RIAA appears to be genetically-incapable of noticing…
As a matter of interest, who owns Business Week? Any connection to the conglomerates that also control the RIAA??
