The Death of the CD? Hmmm…

Music indus­try fig­ure­heads pre­dict the end of the CD (reg­is­tra­tion required), with all the mis­judged rea­son­ing you’d expect from an indus­try that has the RIAA as its mouthpiece.

You do wonder, though: do they think that if they shout loud enough about the death of the format, sud­denly people will aban­don it in droves, and move into a new, won­der­ful world of pre-​paid music sub­scrip­tion, where YOU THE CON­SUMER can decide what you want and when you want it? Or — here’s a thought — maybe they want every­one to buy every­thing again, at prices they con­trol on tech­nol­ogy you have no legal right to inter­fere with. Me, I’m cat­a­logu­ing every­thing on wax cylin­ders from now on.

Posted at 6pm on 30/03/03 by Leon McDermott to the music category.
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