Looting the Music Industry: The File Sharing/Hussein Regime "Connection"
...Then, all-of-a-sudden, beginning in the late 1990s, things began to change and anyone with a computer and a dial-up connection could circumvent BOTH distribution systems.
This change has thrown the Music Industry into an hysterical tailspin in search of copy-protection schemes, experimental Internet streaming partnerships, and a way to hold on to a fleeting reality.
Think of the music-buying public as the Iraqi people and the Music industry as the former Hussein Regime. For years, the Music “dictators” have been able to charge inflated prices for CDs because they owned the distribution system (creating and marketing the CDs). But, with the advent and convergence of .mp3 technology, the ability to burn CDs and the Internet, the distribution system was suddenly yanked away from the music moguls.
And what did people do? They traded .mp3 files by the millions. In effect, they LOOTED the formerly oppressive Music industry.
The Music industry, like the former Iraqi Information Minister, is in denial...”Yet, as they clamour to try and put the Genie back in the bottle, peer-to-peer file sharing is toppling the Music industry's statues, day-by-day.