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	Comment before you read: Heard about this on techdirt and rolling stone (i think). A good summary of how these morons screwed up the music industry.
	Comment after you read: Suing your own fans; failing to make a deal with Napster while it was in its infancy; bitching about Steve Jobs getting the best of them; forcing people to buy $18.99 CDs to listen to 2 songs; digital rights management; and it goes on and on. These music executives are the biggest bunch of backward blowhards any industry has ever seen. I've known most of these issues from techdirt but it was nice seeing it all in one place. Bunch of idiots.

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1 year ago bigmike finished reading Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age by Steve Knopper. For 15 days bigmike read 320 pages at 21 pages a day.

Heard about this on techdirt and rolling stone (i think). A good summary of how these morons screwed up the music industry.

Suing your own fans; failing to make a deal with Napster while it was in its infancy; bitching about Steve Jobs getting the best of them; forcing people to buy $18.99 CDs to listen to 2 songs; digital rights management; and it goes on and on. These music executives are the biggest bunch of backward blowhards any industry has ever seen. I've known most of these issues from techdirt but it was nice seeing it all in one place. Bunch of idiots.