http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000/09/mann.htm
Rampant music piracy may hurt musicians less than they
fear. The real threat -- to listeners and,
conceivably,
democracy itself -- is the music industry's reaction
to it
by Charles C. Mann
A LITTLE while ago I heard that the future of
music was
being decided in a nondescript office suite
above a bank
in San Mateo, California. I couldn't get there
in time, so I
asked a friend to check it out. A crowd was milling
in front of
the entrance when he arrived. My friend parked
illegally and
called me on his cell phone. There are twenty or
thirty
television cameras, he said, and a lectern with a
dozen
microphones. Also lots of police officers. I asked
about the
loud noise in the background. "That," he explained,
"is people
smashing compact discs with sledgehammers."
--
Jim Coon
Not just another pretty mandolin picker.
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If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet?
My first web page
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