Vindication

A while back I went with representatives from UMBC and EDUCAUSE to discuss ongoing legislation concerning college campuses and filesharing (Student Government Meets Federal Government). This recent article from Ars Technica vindicates my contentions to fellow students, campus administrators, and on Capitol Hill that the music business is changing. The solution to the "problem" is not to ask colleges to "develop a plan" to fight filesharing, nor is it to force colleges to "encourage the use of legal alternatives" by sinking money into abominable startups like Ruckus. Rather, it is the music industry's responsibility to embrace the digital era and eliminate filesharing not through force, but by providing a quality product.

This article is an excellent read and contains the numbers to back it up - numbers I am inclined to believe as opposed to some of the outrageous claims being haphazardly slung around by some.


A brave new world: the music biz at the dawn of 2008