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...Harvard alumnus and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) executive, I write in response to The Crimson’s editorial “Wrath of the RIAA” (Apr. 18), which sets forth the same tired and incorrect arguments about the modern music industry that have become popular among its critics. While we appreciate The Crimson’s (obligatory) shared concern for the protection of intellectual property rights, the editorial’s characterization of our relationship with technology is terribly out of tune...
...writer is RIAA Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel and a 1995 graduate of Harvard Law School...
...ultimately, there are ways of sharing files that are relatively safe from the wrath of the music industry’s lawyers; even if the RIAA and MPAA shut down every existing avenue there will be four more tomorrow. Where there’s a significant market—about 60 million people in America share files, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation—there’s a way. Of course, this largely misses the point. The RIAA, with its army of lawyers, is slowly but surely poisoning the well from which it drinks; by suing their clients?...
...RIAA is reacting to symptoms of a larger disease that it has yet to cure, largely because they haven’t realized that it isn’t a disease at all. The disease—a widespread dissatisfaction with the exorbitant price of music combined with the ease of obtaining music on the Internet—can’t be cured by litigation. The music industry must realize that music consumers are simply not willing to drive to the music store, find a compact disc—for the one song they long to hear?...
That said, it should be noted that we understand concerns of intellectual property rights. And we’re sympathetic. However, it’s a new day for the music industry; instead of fighting the future, the RIAA and the artists that they represent should embrace the Internet, and the trend that is being set by wildly successful ventures such as Apple’s iTunes music store. Scare tactics such as lawsuits will only encourage innovative students to devise new ways of anonymously procuring free music. Instead, the RIAA should work with music fans and Internet software developers...