The march of the middlemen
James Robertson over at Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants writes:
The RIAA (and the MPAA, for that matter) are fighting a war they can't win. They are busily irritating their real and potential customers--either suing them, or making life difficult for them--while the real pirates sail along unimpaired. The amount of inertia in that business is astonishing--the good times for all the do-nothing middlemen are over, and it's time for the labels to accept that fact and get on with their lives.
I don't bring this up because I want to replow the well-worked ground of the out-of-touch … Read more