Originally published October 21 2003
Free Market, Not Legal Threats, Solves Online Music Piracy Problem
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The RIAA is run by people who continue to make themselves increasingly irrelevant. Apple has shown that paid, downloadable music virtually eliminates the music piracy problem. Why? Because most people are honest folks, and they're willing to pay a buck for a song.
But the RIAA thinks most people are criminals, and they're determined to do something about it, even if it means making themselves obsolete. They seem to be blind to the hilarious fact that iTunes is not just selling a whole lot of music downloads: they're also demonstrating why the RIAA is utterly irrelevant. What artist needs music publishers when they can sell music directly to the public?
Goodbye, RIAA. Hello, iTunes. And here's my vote for musicians and bands bypassing the corrupt music publishers entirely. Besides, isn't it time you musicians actually got paid a fair portion of your CD sales anyway?
Analysis: By overzealously charging its own best customers with criminality, the RIAA is writing itself into a sad chapter of history and proving its loudest critics right.
Apple Computer Inc. said Monday that Windows
computer users had downloaded its iTunes digital jukebox software and
bought more than 1 million songs at a cost of 99 cents each from its
online music store since their launch for Windows last Thursday.
That compares with 1 million songs sold in the first seven days when it
introduced the original iTunes for Mac users.
"We're off to a great start, and our competition isn't even out of the
starting gates yet," said Apple co-founder and Chief Executive Steve
Jobs in a statement.
To help meet that goal, Apple also announced a promotion with PepsiCo
Inc. starting in February in which 100 million winning bottle caps on
certain Pepsi drinks grant the winner a free song.
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