Posted by Brian Henderson on 10/10/07 17:04

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:35:45 -0700, Don Del Grande
<del_grande_news@earthlink.net> wrote:

>IANATNABTYVM - I am neither a troll nor a B1FF, thank you very much
>(although I will admit that I owned an Atari 800 in the early 1980s,
>even though a true B1FF used a VIC-20). I'm just tired of people who
>think the solution to the music problem is to get rid of RIAA (and,
>while they're at it, the MPAA) and allow for free copying.

No, the solution is for the RIAA and MPAA to stop living in the past
and get with the program. Both are using business plans that went out
in the 70s and instead of pulling their heads out and accepting the
net as a simple fact of life, they're still fighting tooth and nail
like they can stop it. I certainly don't want free copying, but the
RIAA and MPAA need to realize that their customers want things in a
certain format at a certain price point and if they are not given it
by the legitimate companies, they *WILL* go elsewhere for it.

What the RIAA and MPAA are doing right now is just childish and is
driving away an ever-increasing number of potential customers.

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