[51009] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Major Labels v. Backbones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun Aug 18 04:37:19 2002
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 11:36:32 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Tim Thorne <tim.thorne@btinternet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Tim Thorne wrote:
>
> They'd probably end up filing suit for that too. I don't believe that
> will affect them much. The whole music industry seems to be running
> scared of new media. They obviously like the revenue from album sales
> and figure that if people buy only a couple of mp3s tracks they will
> earn less revenue. Try and buy an mp3 of something from Sony:
>
> http://usa.sonymusic.com/music/catalog.html
>
> File sharing will continue until the recording industry gives people
> what they want. It is not about piracy, its about convenience.
>
How do you classify Pressplay in this view?
Pete
