{"id":2754,"date":"2002-09-25T11:38:15","date_gmt":"2002-09-25T16:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2002-09-25T11:38:15","modified_gmt":"2002-09-25T16:38:15","slug":"attack_of_the_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/25\/attack_of_the_b.html","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the Buggy Whip Manufacturers"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting study is out arguging that RIAA and MPAA companies need to stop exerting all their time, effort and congressional influence on fighting piracy and file-swapping, and instead just try to learn how to make a buck at it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“What we don’t see is a real questioning of business models,” said Ashley Steel, a partner in KPMG’s Information, Communications and Entertainment practice. “They complain about the Napsters,” she said, referring to the bankrupt music-swapping site that was found to violate U.S. copyright laws. “But why do the Napsters exist? Because the marketplace wants them.”
\nSteel said that if the issue “is not on boardroom table…then that boardroom has problems.”<\/p>\n

It’s ironic that such stalwarts of commerce are so quick to try and battle against <\/i>market forces.<\/p>\n

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