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When the motto for the year 2001 is "Innovation Followed by Litigation" you know who the biggest winners are - the lawyers.

— Richard Menta

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Source - The phrase "Innovation Followed by Litigation" was coined in the May 2001 MP3 Newswire article MusicNet and Duet: downloads expire after 30 days

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As the largest grassroots effort in the history of the world, file trading is essentially the average person's way of saying we don't agree with the status quo.

What seems to most balance out the major music labels resistance to the MP3 explosion is the fact that their own artists are ahead of the curve.

The flaw of target marketing is that it assumes people are indifferent to variety. Suburban white boys won't listen to Rap because supposedly they can't relate to urban black youths hopping around to all beat and no melody. What we get is music segregation on the airwaves and the record racks.

DRM goes beyond protecting tracks from being traded online. It is used to lock consumers to proprietary technology. It is used to control supply and push higher prices. It is used to undermine practices we have long defined as fair use so they can be shifted to fee-based.

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