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Suddenly, the RIAA is bullish on online music...
...Giving away someone else's music without their permission is yesterday's news," RIAA spokesman Hillary Rosen told the committee...
...Over the course of its yearlong court battle to squash music-swapper Napster, the RIAA was not known for its futurism. And with a host of other free-music sites out there - BearShare, Gnutella, Aimster, yada, yada, yada, - snapping up downloaders as we speak, Rosen's optimism for a more moral world of online music (or merely a more lucrative one for the record companies, whichever you prefer) may be a bit premature. But she's right about one thing - the Senate wasn't doing much more than holding a star-studded wake...
...Napster, meanwhile, is looking about as dated as Henley. The site that with Mp3.com is likely to have changed the music business forever is now struggling to make it through the spring, engaged in a tit-for-tat legal battle with the RIAA as it gets around to complying with a technologically tricky (and market-share-killing) court order requiring it to remove all copyrighted material from its service...
...Online music seems inarguably destined to live on, and as music labels take advantage of the medium's low-overhead distribution model, the artist-label debate will no doubt pick up additional steam. In the meantime, the RIAA is just in time to tell the assembled senators that everything's fine, thank you very much, we've got it under control...