RIAA on the offensive
by Dave Wilson on Jun.26, 2003, under Uncategorized
The Register today reports that the RIAA is about to unleash a salvo of lawsuits against individual file “sharers” in an attempt to curb online swapping of music. While I am a fan of neither the RIAA nor theft of copyright material, I tend to think that they really have missed the point here.
Rather than expending all this effort on cracking down on file sharing over the last few years, I feel very strongly that they should have been working on providing people with a commercially viable alternative to Napster, Gnutella, etc. With a sensible pricing structure (iTunes strikes me as a bit expensive at 99c per track), a commercial online distribution system with a large library would no doubt draw a huge audience.
Digital distribution is the way of the future (or present if you consider how many people are allegedly downloading the latest CDs already) and the quicker the RIAA gets onboard and offers a compelling product, the better.
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