[IP] more on RIAA & libraries on boston WB
Begin forwarded message:
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@xxxxxxx>
Date: August 3, 2004 6:14:31 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Todd Pinkerton <toddp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] RIAA & libraries on boston WB
Has anyone else had local coverage of this gross injustice?
It would appear so: /. carried a story about this last week, which read
in part:
'cosyne writes "Part of the music industry's recent price fixing
settlement involves giving free CDs to public libraries. Although
they are technically complying with the the letter of the law,
they're abusing the spirit by giving the libraries large piles of
crud. According to the Stevens Point Journal, '[the] Milwaukee
Public Library received 1,235 copies of Whitney Houston's 1991
recording of "The Star-Spangled Banner," 188 copies of Michael
Bolton's "Timeless," 375 of "Entertainment Weekly: The Greatest
Hits 1971," and 104 copies of Will Smith's "Willennium."' The
recording industry obviously wouldn't want to have libraries
loaning out music that people might otherwise buy." See also a
related story about shipments to another state.'
See:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/07/25/1539259.shtml?tid=141&tid=123
My sense of things, from reading the comments on /., as well as the
links
provided in the article and in followups, is that these aren't isolated
incidents: the music industry appears to be taking advantage of the
opportunity
to clear out its warehouses, thus solving two problems (the settlement
and
unsaleable merchandise) at once. Oh, I'm sure one of their paid
professional
liars will come up with some farsical explanation for this -- in fact,
I'll
bet that they blame P2P networks for it. ;-)
---Rsk
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