22nd June, 2004
Payback
Interesting article regarding the antitrust settlement with major music labels that has taken for-friggin-ever to be fulfilled. As part of the settlement, almost 6 million CDs are slated to be given to non-profit organizations; that’s a Good Thing, right?
Oh, but wait, it seems that the record labels are dumping old & unpopular CDs from their inventories as settlement payment. Topping the list is the oh-so-lucky Iowa State Library which received 430 copies of Whitney Houston singing The Star Spangled Banner at the 1991 Super Bowl. I bet those will circulate a lot. MSNBC tries to put a happy spin on it by saying “…the source of the overabundance has been determined to be nothing more sinister than a computer-programming glitch…”. Right. And the war in Iraq isn’t about oil.
Posted at 7:35 am | Comment (0)
