Aug 31 2002

ZDNet’s Cooper: Music business on a collision course

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“It’s hard to say which side in the baseball labor dispute is doing a better job mucking it up for the rest of us–when it comes to pigheadedness and unvarnished greed, the owners and the players are giving each other a pretty good run for the money.
Watching professional baseball’s slow-motion self-destruction, I can’t help but note parallels to another quarrel over money and power: the endless tempest over the digital downloading of music. This other front-page controversy inexplicably remains no closer to resolution than it was two-and-a-half years ago. Now it threatens to drag down a music business too hidebound to give a little to get a little…”

Click here to read Charles Cooper’s full commentary at ZDNet.

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