If You're Looking For Your MP3 Player, The RIAA Took It

Are geek bloggers secretly running the Recording Industry Association of America, making outrageously unpopular decisions so they and compatriots will have easy fodder for blistering criticism? For your consideration: Today's no. 34 top link, an ars technica piece detailing a proposed law that would strongly collar the way people can use and enjoy digital music, is the sort of thing that gives bloggers rage blackouts. (That's happened to us at least a couple times.) This blogger's post is headlined "They Will Take Your Mind," and brings out some decent invective; the volume's a little lower on this screed, but it's got a good sum-up of the whole situation: "This is so wrong, on so many levels it is absurd. Never mind stamping out innovation or the rights of people to make and sell their inventions and products. I think what burns me the most is the idiotic logic." This blogger is miffed that nobody seems too up-in-arms about the proposal, while this one probably has the most sober recap on the entire business. Fellas, fellas — calm yourselves a moment. Ok, now you're angry again.

Posted by Philip Ewing at January 24, 2006 09:50 AM

Category: The Soundscape