[BC] Arrested for just telling people where to find Copywrited material.

[Rich Wood]

------ At 04:05 PM 10/21/2007, Robert Orban wrote: -------

>An old friend of mine was just laid off from Universal's marketing 
>department in Los Angeles, along with his boss and 11 other staff 
>members -- Universal nuked his whole department because the 
>company's sales downturn made it economically impossible to continue 
>running it. Mark had been working there for over 5 years. Don't 
>delude yourself; file sharing *is* hurting real people and so far, 
>digital downloads are not making up for lost CD sales ;-(

We can compare that to the thousands of radio people who lost their 
jobs during consolidation. Considering what record companies are 
producing I find it hard to feel sorry for people who no longer have 
anything of value to market. While I don't condone theft of 
intellectual property I can understand the feeling that the product 
isn't worth paying for. I can't remember a period where record 
companies were so bereft of creativity as today.

I'll bet Radiohead will make more money with the "honor" download 
system than they ever did as slaves to a record company.

Rich