I wont be cutting and pasting the entire interview, but below are some very choice cuts.
"For the major labels, it's over. It's fucking over. You're going to burn to the fucking ground, and we're all going to dance around the fire. And it's your own fault. Surely, somewhere deep inside, you had to know this day was coming, right? Your very industry is founded on an unfair business model of owning art you didn't create in exchange for the services you provide. It's rigged so that you win every time - even if the artist does well, you do ten times better. It was able to exist because you controlled the distribution, but now that's back in the hands of the people, and you let the ball drop when you could have evolved."
and
"and if I filled my shiny new 160gb iPod up legally, buying each track online at the 99 cents price that the industry has determined, it would cost me about $32,226. How does that make sense? It's the ugly truth the record industry wants to ignore as they struggle to find ways to get people to pay for music in a culture that has already embraced the idea of music being something you collect in large volumes, and trade freely with your friends."
You might not agree with everything thats said, but you can't deny that the industry hasn't responded to the changes and potential the new medium has to offer. But I do recommend you read some of the comments on the bottom, they are as insightful as the main article as well.
Edit 2014 - it would have helped if I had put a link to the article as I referenced it in a subsequent post.
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