The Music Industry Sucks
[Does She Look Like a Music Pirate? | BusinessWeek]
A disturbing look at the RIAA’s bully legal tactics by BusinessWeek.
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Here’s my question for the RIAA:
Which do you think would cost less (in both cash and PR / good will):
- Extorting money from your customer base by continuing on this scorched earth copyright infringement campaign, whether or not they’re actually guilty? …or
- Adapting to an online distribution model (which has proven wildly successful), admitting that the Old Way of doing business is flawed, and embracing a new way of doing business — which may actually involve (*GASP*) removing most of the middlemen from the equation and relying on actual TALENT to sell product?
Call me crazy, but if you stop suing your customer base and focus your efforts on supporting talented artists, new technology, and even new ways of doing business, I think maybe you might be on the right track.
While extorting money is fun and all, wouldn’t it be much easier to actually earn your customers’ purchases?
April 27th, 2008
