Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in part:
> Of course the recording companies know they are largely redundant,
Yes, in their current working mode (bean-counting, milking the dying cow).
But it did not need to be so. There is a serious gatekeeping
function they used to perform before they slashed A&R (artists
and Recordings) budgets -- that of discovering, poli****ng and
presenting new talent.
The recording companies could have embraced the Internet for
new artist presentation, publicity and distribution. Dross
like "American Idol" fills the vacuum.
Instead, they die from lack of imagination and courage.
The keening of their lawyers is their funeral dirge.
-- Robert
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