Why Won't The Music Industry Just Listen To What Consumers Want?
from the get-the-wax-out dept
Salon takes the music industry to task for not giving music consumers what they want. They compare the "War on MP3s" to the equally disastrous "War on Drugs", where for all the money spent, plenty of people are still getting what they want - it's just a little more annoying. In the case of MP3s, the music industry has the perfect opportunity to step up now and offer a fully open music trading platform - with a subscription fee, and it's likely that many people would sign up. However, they still insist on putting all sorts of restrictions on music services. It amazes me that a whole industry can be so blind.
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