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Jun 8 19:25 UTC 2007

Mock away, but non-traditional retail outlets are selling CDs better
than just about anyone else in brick-and-mortar land.
 
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Somebody over on velvetrope.com dug out this Wired article from
1997.  Opening quote:  "It's been a tough stretch for the US $40
billion music industry.  The Internet is about to make it a 
hell of a lot worse."

CD burners were just being perceived as a problem for the industry,
as prices were down to about $400 for a burner.
 
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1997/10/7943

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Ars Technica reports on Congressional hearings held this week, again,
on the subject of file sharing on universities.  The thrust of the 
hearings seems to be that Congress is going to mandate that universities
install a technological fix to address the issue, whether the fixes
are any good or not.
 
"Congress, RIAA and Universities prepare for P2P 'arms race'"
 
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070607-congress-riaa-and-universitie
s-prepare-for-p2p-arms-race.html

The wild claims for the Clouseau system from Safemedia look 
like pure snake oil.
 
University of Utah claims to have achieved a 90% reduction in 
file sharing with a combination of Audible Magic's filtering system
and a 2GB cap on a student's outgoing traffic, though they report
that they are blocking some users of the internet phone system
Skype.