Vince Werber wrote:
On a lark I surfed over to Matt Drudge's web site (www.drudgereport.com) to see if there was anything new on the ASCAP lawsuits and lo and behold... There is a story about Sir Elton wanting to shut down the web because he thinks the web music people are in some way causing a problem with music...
Sir Elton is just mouthing the fundamental RIAA issue with the web. An artist who produces his or her own music (indies) no longer NEEDS the RIAA distribution middlemen to sell music. When artists and the public realize this, it will be the end of the RIAA as a distribution middleman. Especially as the kinks are worked out of the burn-on-demand process and stores can sell CDs without having to invest cash in physical stock.
If the RIAA is smart (like the print publishing industry should become), they'll realize that their valuable skill is their professional expertise with making quality content, not making CDs and distributing them. At which point an artist wouldn't sign with a distributor, they'd sign with a producer.
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