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more on RIAA & libraries on boston WB
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 20:22:01 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> Date: August 3, 2004 6:14:31 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: Todd Pinkerton <toddp () geneticmail com> Subject: Re: [IP] RIAA & libraries on boston WB
Has anyone else had local coverage of this gross injustice?
It would appear so: /. carried a story about this last week, which read in part:
'cosyne writes "Part of the music industry's recent price fixing settlement involves giving free CDs to public libraries. Although they are technically complying with the the letter of the law, they're abusing the spirit by giving the libraries large piles of crud. According to the Stevens Point Journal, '[the] Milwaukee Public Library received 1,235 copies of Whitney Houston's 1991 recording of "The Star-Spangled Banner," 188 copies of Michael Bolton's "Timeless," 375 of "Entertainment Weekly: The Greatest Hits 1971," and 104 copies of Will Smith's "Willennium."' The recording industry obviously wouldn't want to have libraries loaning out music that people might otherwise buy." See also a related story about shipments to another state.' See: http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/07/25/1539259.shtml?tid=141&tid=123My sense of things, from reading the comments on /., as well as the links
provided in the article and in followups, is that these aren't isolatedincidents: the music industry appears to be taking advantage of the opportunity to clear out its warehouses, thus solving two problems (the settlement and unsaleable merchandise) at once. Oh, I'm sure one of their paid professional liars will come up with some farsical explanation for this -- in fact, I'll
bet that they blame P2P networks for it. ;-) ---Rsk ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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