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Extintion level events in digital music

sonicproduct	Date: February 22, 2005 @ 7:32 PM Sonic Product blog." id="127082">When there's billions of dollars on the line, large media corporations will stop at nothing to eliminate threats to their business models, no matter what the cost to our culture. Modern media thrives on technological innovation, and yet the past few years have seen an increasingly large effort to stifle innovation by trade organizations (RIAA, MPAA) and the media conglomerates they represent. These bureaucracies are unable to adapt to the new digital business landscape, so they use lawsuits and legislation in a desperate attempt to prevent their own obsolescence. The result of this corporate meddling is that consumers are denied access to life-enhancing media technology, and artists are shut out from having a hand in deciding the fate of their own work.... Check it out at the Sonic Product blog.
nickmandler	Date: April 14, 2005 @ 11:38 AM Techno was born through sharing and innovation. It's too bad that nobody has the power to stop these lawsuits from happening, it seems like digital music is going to die out any day now. It's up to people like us to keep it going, by posting music that can be downloaded for free.
wet1	Date: June 19, 2005 @ 4:54 PM Extinction level? Well only if you consider that far too many releases now-a-days are dominated by the ever popular and immensely talented group, "Greatest Hits".