file-swapping is killing the record industry...so keep doing it!

[anechoic <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

from the SF GATE MORNING FIX
Thu, 28 Feb 2002

>   Recording Industry Totally Not Kidding Dammit
> Recording Academy President C. Michael Greene used his speech at the
>bland and totally rigged Grammy Awards to lobby for an end to rampant
>electronic music-swapping, which he said is damaging the recording
>industry and totally screwing with his ability to scam millions of dollars
>from the idiot public in a thinly veiled act of major ongoing consumer
>fraud. "This illegal file-sharing and ripping of music is pervasive, out
>of control and it's oh so criminal," Greene said, as no one anywhere
>actually had any idea what this guy actually does for a living,as in
>actual work. The industry complains that record sales are plummeting and
>profit margins are thin, largely because of the illegal swapping of music
>files over the Internet, and not because the recording industry has been
>ripping off consumers for years and gleefully overcharging and gouging
>artists for major chunks of their livelihoods and artificially inflating
>the cost of CDs and being entirely slothful in keeping up with new
>technologies because they're largely lazy and corporate and unethical.
>"You little punk-ass kids keep this up, and I won't be able to make my
>Hummer payments," Greene should've added, wagging a finger, secretly
>longing for the time when a very drunk David Hasselhoff serenaded him in
>his hot tub and he felt his first real pangs of genuine love.


--Boundary_(ID_G+1zNwCSoeNovIK1FHoO/A)
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