[sdiy] *DMCA* The R in RSA on the SSSCA aka CBDTPA (fwd)

[CHoaglin at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/23/02 2:56:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, psnow at magma.ca 
writes:


> It's truly amazing, isn't it. 
> I get the feeling it's the old trick of asking for something ridiculous so 
> that after all the
> arguing and horse-trading you'll end up getting what you wanted in the 
> first place.
> 
> 

That's just it, they shouldn't. In any form of free-market economy, if your 
business model isn't sustainable and your only skill is extreme 
mismanagement, you don't make up for your losses off the backs of other 
industries and individuals by taxing them, nor do you pass go and collect 
$200, you go directly out of business. Sometimes you can hide it for a while, 
a la Enron, but sooner or later it catches up to you. Subsidies are given to 
industries which are necessary regardless of whether they're profitable, like 
farming, or the airline industry at times, or other national infrastructure 
type stuff. I don't think anybody could make the argument that large-scale 
record labels provide any kind of crucial service, especially with the 
availability of internet technology to enable musicians to promote and sell 
their work. Their time has passed, and newer distribution systems have made 
them obsolete. They're just thrashing around like a dying insect, basically.

-Chrs
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