somedaybitch

apparently the music industry's temper tantrums about file sharing have finally [reached the Supreme Court.] in yet another decision reached by the Ninth Circuit that someone is striving to have overturned (i sense a trend with that court?), the Ninth Circuit likened Grokster (and one other software i can't remember) to the VCR and used the original Sony case against VCR's to do it. the ~~whiny, greedy drama queens~~ music industry apparently made a doom and gloom appeal to SCOTUS, predicting an effect just short of the downfall of humanity as we know it if the Court didn't overturn the Ninth's decision.

i'm currently listening to a burn of Trevor Lissauer that the roomie found. there's only 4 songs on the disc. i love it so much that i'm gonna buy the full 11 song cd and try to get tickets to these guys' upcoming concert in January. i would never have heard of the band if the roomie didn't tip me off and she would never have heard of the band if someone didn't put it online. that's a cd purchase and concert ticket purchases and, in all probability, a lifelong fan and future customer. that download just made that artist two fans. i've already pimped the band to 2 co-workers.

the music industry needs to remove its collective head from its collective ass and recognize that file sharing is gonna get their artists more paying listeners, and remind themselves that it's not the music sharers that are ripping off recording artists...it's the recording industry.