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

[Dana Puopolo]

Bob, 

Following your analogy, we should all have been forced by Congress to continue
to use horse carts and buggy whips instead of automobiles, because the buggy
whip companies could not change their business models.

Or maybe Congress should force all of us to buy and use Kodak 35 mm film
instead of digital cameras?

The landscape is littered with companies and formats that went under because
they could not or would not adapt to changing technology.

Why, just in the music and movie industries we have CVD disks, Laserdisk, Beta
tape, 8 track tapes, reel to reel, cassette, vinyl records, DAT, and VHS
tape.

Now, after 25 years, it's time for the CD to be replaced and what do the
record companies do? They stick their heads in the sand and bribe Congress to
keep their aging business and distribution model alive.
 
As a personal example....Bob, how many Optimod 8100A's do you think you'd be
selling today if that was Orban's only product? Very few I'll bet-because
people would be buying digital processors from your competitors!  Why is your
company successful? Simple. You adapted to trends in both technology and
consumerism. You saw where the marketplace was going and adapted. The record
industry has done NOTHING of the sort! For almost TEN YEARS they've seen their
share erode and not lifted a FINGER (other then in the courtroom) to do
anything about it. They deserve to die!

Adapt or die-that's what the free market is all about. They haven't adapted.
They deserve to die.

-D
 

>To make a not-so-strained analogy, suppose that radio advertisers in 
>the last five years or so found a way of illegally getting their 
>spots on the radio without paying for them and without the stations' 
>consent. Would you then smugly say that "radio must find a new 
>business model"? What would you say to the person who said that 
>"radio advertising is no longer a viable product because it lacks 
>appeal"? Sometimes changing business models is far easier said than done.
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