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Friday, July 25, 2003

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) should really think about who they're going after. As I've mentioned before, they will not stop until they sue everyone with a computer. This is completely insane. Look at it this way. The people being targeted are the very customers who make the Recording Industry and their artists successful. Check out this entry in the following Wired.com article:

Bob Barnes, a 50-year-old grandfather in Fresno, California, and the target of another subpeona, acknowledged sharing "several hundred" music files. He said he used the Internet to download hard-to-find recordings of European artists because he was unsatisfied with modern American artists and grew tired of buying CDs without the chance to listen to them first.

"If you don't like it, you can't take it back," said Barnes, who runs a small video production company with his wife from their three-bedroom home. "You have all your little blonde, blue-eyed clones. There's no originality."


You know there are maybe millions of people who feel this way. Music is overpriced, but we still keep on buying. We'd like to have at least some control over what we buy. The RIAA needs to get a clue.

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