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If the RIAA has its way, every music app, with the exception of basic consumer sales sites like iTunes, will be gone. In its zeal to recreate the past with a sales model that had the labels rolling in money and the industry controlled by the complicated and often incestuous relationship between radio and the labels, the RIAA would completely eliminate the technology that could make even the long tail of recorded music profitable.
…What is the resort, then, for those of us who aren’t interested in the pablum being spoon-fed to us via Clear Channel here in the States? We’ll be forced to head underground to find new music, exactly the behavior that the RIAA claims it’s trying to stop. The U.S. and other countries will end up like China: a country whose music industry is so ravaged by piracy that recorded music is viewed as nothing more than an advertisement for live shows and merchandise.
”Cyndy Aleo-Carreira - Is the Music Industry Digging Its Own Online Grave? (via artistspaid)
