DANGLING CONVERSATION
Rock & Rap Confidential. No. 209, January 2005.

This is a very nice short item in a great little newsletter. The article is about the
Pew Internet & American Life Project
study, Artists, Musicians, and the Internet, of 2,755 artists.
The study shows that musicians are embracing the Internet and do not share the music industry’s antipathy to file sharing. The
story shows what the music industry thinks of musicians when it quotes Jay Rosenthal, a music industry lawyer, as saying that interviewing musicians was “like going to Fallujah and asking how they feel about Americans.”
It also quotes Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy:

“What if there was a movement to shut down libraries because book publishers and authors were up in arms over the idea that people are reading books for free? It would send a message that books are only for the elite who can afford them.

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