Kakki wrote: > There have been other groups over the years who have also monopolized - and > in sometimes scarily coercive and/or illegal ways. But no one turf lord > held it all. CC's monopoly seems so hideously all-encompassing. I'd be > interested to know if there are any answers to the situation, besides > artists going indie and doing it themselves.
The roots of the problem lie in the dismantling of anti-monopoly rules which started with Reagan and continue to this day. I hate to sound like a broken record (skipping CD?), but when big money owns our "leaders", this is the end result. The foisting of irrelevant pap may be the undoing of the megas, along with unbridled greed that screws artists, consumers, and killed Napster, which, even though a copyright infringer, gave people something they want- a single source for musical downloads. People get sick of it and start their own thing. That's how FM radio (now long co-opted) started. Either that or put up with the current ever-narrowing corpo-pop. Same thing with the politicos. We have the power, just need to wake up from our TV-induced coma, and kick out the "axis of evil". RR
