Rediscover Communication

Hello... It wouldn't surprise me if the RIAA was behind the dalnet attacks. At least in some way. They are an amazingly conflicted group of people. I was reading Wired magazine (it is in the library here at school, and I was bored) and they had an article about MP3 sharing and how it is (supposedly) killing the music industry. One of the specific examples was Sony. Sony is basically divided into two companies, Sony hardware and Sony Entertainment. Sony hardware tries to make hardware that people can use and want, such as the walkman, transistor radio, etc. MP3 players are all the rage now, and the hardware portion of Sony wants in on it. But Sony Entertainment is in the RIAA and is trying to frustrate efforts of companies like Sony to make such hardware, mostly by generating lawsuits until they can't see straight. They had a whole list of contradictory things that were done, where Sony was basically taking legal action against itself. For example, it introduced a copy protection scheme for CD's that made many of the CD's produced by Sony unplayable in the VAIO laptop. Go figure. The jist of the article is that the music industry is on its knees, and it only has a couple of years until it will not function at all, at least not the way it has been (some say it is already too late). Which is something I greatly look forward to. There needs to be a change of business there. Everybody is sick of the homogenization the industry has foisted upon us. At least I am...

have fun at the movie, chad. I will be joining you in your quest for a job in the not-too-distant future. Grad school is looking more appealing every day, despite the fact that I AM SICK OF SCHOOL.
l8r