in a letter to congress.. full text here http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/13239
Mitch Bainwol of the RIAA says “They [p2p companies] resist going legitimate because they know
that a pay-for model can’t compete on the same level with free. They
won’t go legitimate unless and until they have no alternative – until
the game is up.”
meanwhile, “The recording industry has “blacklisted” Internet file-sharing services and is preventing other companies like RealNetworks Inc. from doing business with them, according to music and technology industry officials.”
link to this story here: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040715/wr_nm/media_blacklist_dc_1
As the submitter, i would like to personally express my disdain for such underhandedness at the expense of a potential public good.
They could license it and make billions, instead they blacklist it and misrepresent the intentions of the technology’s leading firms to congress.
