[CLUE-Talk] Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading

[G. Richard Raab]

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On Thursday 19 June 2003 05:57 pm, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 16:44, Matt Gushee wrote:
>

>
> >   - laws that favor existing companies?
>
> I'm not sure how existing laws are an impediment to smaller start-up
> record companies. You'd have to explain this one.
>
> > But I wonder which one of these is crucial ... or is it just the
> > combination of all of them?
>
> If you're looking for the big mega-success, maybe all of them. If you're
> talking about turning a profit and making a decent living, probably none
> of them.
>
> Having decent music would probably help, though...


Actually, the current laws do favor the large companies. Large companies 
control major stores inventories (you want to sell all of sony CDs? then do 
not carry these small companies CDs - nice monopoly) and therefore they 
control who can come in easily. I suspect that much of the reason for 
stopping download-able music is not to stop "theft", but to stop the creation 
of small labels.  It is one of the problem with congress and any corrupt 
admin.



- -- 
cheers
g.r.r.
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