Wow. Mitch Glazier, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), said in a statement: “As legendary band the Grateful Dead once

Wow. Mitch Glazier, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), said in a statement: “As legendary band the Grateful Dead once said in an iconic pre 1972 song, ‘what a long strange trip it’s been.’ It’s been an epic odyssey, and we’re thrilled to almost be at our destination. That took some real chutzpah to quote the Grateful Dead, a band who's success was predicated on bootleg recordings, and one of who's band members founded the EFF, which adamantly opposes extending additional copyrights to pre-1972 material. Given the open and contentious debate surrounding music copyrights, I doubt it was a coincidence.