[Robert_Paulson2]

Consumers are shifting to independent musicians at an alarming rate...
The record companies are unsure how many independent bands are distributing netwide, at greatly reduced costs... 5-8 dollars a cd...

But it is cutting into their sales... and their ability to attact new artists...
These suits will be moot in another five years as there will be almost NO RIAA members left... and we will all have switched over to buying directly from the artists...

One more buggy whip union, bites the dust.

[Brad’s Gramma]

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[Nick Danger]

in another five years as there will be almost NO RIAA members left... and we will all have switched over to buying directly from the artists...

That is exactly what I would expect from what the technology permits. That's the thing the RIAA doesn't seem to "get" -- nobody needs their big, expensive, centralized manufacturing-and-shipping model of music distribution. You need the performers, the listeners, and the cheapest possible thing in between them. The RIAA is no longer the cheapest thing. So out they go.

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