http://themoderatevoice.com/25473/riaas-favorite-lawyer-nominated-for-a-top-justice-post/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:27:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://themoderatevoice.com/25473/riaas-favorite-lawyer-nominated-for-a-top-justice-post/comment-page-1/#comment-168702 GreenDreams Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:20:47 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/25473/riaas-favorite-lawyer-nominated-for-a-top-justice-post/#comment-168702 The RIAA is being abysmally stupid in their response to the death of their revenue model. Looking to Washington to solve their problem won't help. Suing your customers makes no sense, especially as iTunes rakes in cash by realizing what the RIAA won't: most of their customers just want the best songs on an album, not the whole thing. And most want to hear music they're not hearing on the homogenized post-telecomm Act radio. So they discover new music on the very venues RIAA seeks to close down: internet radio, last FM and Pandora. What numbskulls the monopoly-loving music industry are to miss the opportunity to sell music by thousands of little-known artists, instead of endlessly pushing the 100 or so songs at a time that mainstream radio plays. The technology demon is out of the bottle and forward looking companies will prosper while the RIAA dinosaurs struggle to maintain their failed model. The RIAA is being abysmally stupid in their response to the death of their revenue model. Looking to Washington to solve their problem won't help. Suing your customers makes no sense, especially as iTunes rakes in cash by realizing what the RIAA won't: most of their customers just want the best songs on an album, not the whole thing. And most want to hear music they're not hearing on the homogenized post-telecomm Act radio. So they discover new music on the very venues RIAA seeks to close down: internet radio, last FM and Pandora. What numbskulls the monopoly-loving music industry are to miss the opportunity to sell music by thousands of little-known artists, instead of endlessly pushing the 100 or so songs at a time that mainstream radio plays. The technology demon is out of the bottle and forward looking companies will prosper while the RIAA dinosaurs struggle to maintain their failed model.

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