May 25, 2004
Lay Waste to Babylon
Posted by nerdling | May 25, 2004 04:04 PM
Everyone's good buddies over at Clear Channel have now cornered the market on live concert CDs. CC purchased the patent to the technology used to produce such discs, and now claims to own the rights to any such recording produced and sold at the event. This means that they are not only squeezing out competing firms, but they are preventing bands from selling recordings of their own performances at those shows. Inconceivable!
In other loathsome news, the RIAA has filed suits against an additional 493 file sharers in the on-going war against a phantom enemy.
I know that there are other sensible people out there who agree with me, but this kind of hubris is almost too much to believe. I may be cynical and world weary, but these two tidbits are taking ridiculous to new levels.
