[weegee]

Hollywood is trying to avoid the fate of the music industry, which claims it has lost hundreds of millions of dollars worth of sales to illicit file-sharing networks.

They've more than made up for this loss off the product that they have refused to lapse into its consitutionally proscribed public domain. They keep paying to get the laws changed to prolong the inevitable.

[Houmatt]

"The fate of the music industry" was by design. For a long time they refused to even acknowledge the internet and digital downloading, opting instead to sue 12-year-old girls for their college funds. They only recently began to embrace it.

What they need to do now is make available to the consumer popular music that is out of print, never been released on CD or is otherwise unavailable through conventional means. When they do that, I can guarantee a lot of the losses they are reporting will go away.