[ale] bleeding edge (was why so difficult)

[jiin]

At 01:08 PM 10/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>The MP3 debate could drag on a long time. But the reason there are so
>many "illegal" copies of songs today is that the recording industry
>tried to kill the technology first instead of working with it. The
>entertainment industry fell behind the same way with videocassettes in
>the 70's and they used the same rhetoric then that they use against
>MP3's now. Clearly, videocassettes did not kill the movie industry and
>MP3's won't kill the music business either. What they will do--and are
>doing--is force some lazy executives to rethink their business model.
>But there is no guarantee--legal or otherwise--that any one business
>model will last forever. That's one of the exciting things about the
>evolution of Linux and open source programming.


^5 Jim.

jiin

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