From the article: It is difficult to understand why the industry has been so reluctant to pay its bills. I don't find that difficult at all. (Neither does Gei

From the article: It is difficult to understand why the industry has been so reluctant to pay its bills. I don't find that difficult at all. (Neither does Geist, of course. I find myself enjoying quite a few of his posts; he's kind of a Canadian Lessig.) If ever there were an industry that deserved sweeping into the dustbin of history, I vote for this one. Their moral argument against file sharing boils down to: "It's wrong for you to steal from artists. We're the ones who get to steal from artists!" When I think of all the stories I've read over the years of great musicians being swindled out of their life's work...