On Aug 14, 2007, at 11:51 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Lawnun wrote: [ on 08:58 PM 8/14/2007 ]
I just skimmed the article, but how is this really all that new?
It's not, of course. Here's an account [1] of one earlier set of
discussions on this list, during the "summer of Napster" (2000, a
more innocent time before the dot.bust, 9/11 and the Bush-Cheney
axis of evil's worst excesses)
I thought that this would be an interesting point in time to pick
up on the discussion again, not least because it seems to me that
the current business model that the music industry is using is
entering its final death throes, notwithstanding the mountain of
lawsuits they are using to try and prop it up.
(Not quite the recursive, neat, penetratingly analytical wrap-up that
Udhay had solicited, but here's my $0.02...)
The mountain of lawsuits *has become* the business model.
Next up they move up the food chain and try to hit technology
providers as "facilitators." Then they'll use the lobby influence to
try to get a tax on all such equipment, media, etc... at which
point, if it flies, we'll probably have arrived at about the best
practical outcome.
jb
