Randy wrote: > 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.
Actually, both the Nixon and Reagan administrations were criticized for not being more vigilant in investigating antitrust claims based on "conservative" philosophy that "Big Government" should intervene in business affairs as little as possible. By the way, I worked primarily in antitrust law from 1986 - 1992 and never saw any of my cases, at either the federal or state level, being anything less than vigorously prosecuted. During the Clinton admininstration many rules were tightened up so it is not quite the picture to assume that Reagan "dismantled" everything and nothing has changed since his time. In fact, the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 gave entities such as Clear Channel the green light to barrel on full steam ahead. Here is the link: http://www.fcc.gov/telecom.html > The foisting of irrelevant pap may be the undoing of the megas, along > with unbridled greed that screws artists, consumers, I agree! >and killed Napster, which, even though a copyright infringer, gave people something they > want- a single source for musical downloads. I still can't agree with the legitimacy of Napster just because it gives people something they want. Myself and a lot of people want a million bucks too but that doesn't mean I have the right to go take it from someone. > 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. 30-35 years ago people did go out and start their own thing. Where are the people with that same initiative now? I guess if we had the answer, then we'd be getting rich in this market of opportunity - ha! Kakki
