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If the recording indusrty didn't exist, and you took a business plan to a VC to make such as industry that relied on suing customers and buying politicians, he would tell you to get out and don't let the door hit you on the ass. That's NOT a business model. The RIAA no longer has a business model.

Foisting draconian laws on everyone just to save an industry that is no longer viable is both morally wrong and economically stupid. Why should everyone have to put up with DRM spyware just to satisfy the RIAA constituent companies? The RIAA can sort out their own issues themselves, or just go bust and stop bothering everyone.

Do not confuse the Big Record Labels of the recording industry with the RIAA.

The RIAA is a non-profit marketing organization of lawyers that is funded almost wholly by The Big Record Labels. They do not manufacture, sell or distrubute merchandise of any kind.