Intellectual Poison
Is it my imagination or is the recording industry doing the copyfight a favour?

Crunch time may be on us sooner than any of us could hope if the industry continues to make enemies this way. Think of it, they are vilifying themselves to an entire generation, poisoning their own imagined future consumer base in a vain effort to reverse time. There is are nations of kids leaving college over the next few years that have been cajoled and threatened by these idiots, that have lived in fear of being sued, of having their education taken away from them, both individually and now collectively, have seen their own technology broken by absurd legal conditions, seen their computers subverted and turned against them. These kids have seen a dying industry savagely clawing at their freedom in its efforts to preserve its own rotting carcass, becoming so ferocious and incoherent that the only possible future is self-destruction and dissolution. We don't want them around, the kids don't want them, their own artists want out, even being associated with the names of these companies has become a grave offence.

But we're far from done. We still need to see them fail and fall, broken, liquidated down to the last paper-clip to pay back the money they've extorted from music lovers, to pay for the anguish and misery they've caused, to reimburse us for the efforts we have all had to make to work around the god-awful technological atrocities they've inflicted on the world, and not least to pay for the coming apocalypse in the industries they have been stringing along for so long on the promise of a physical future, a promise which now sounds like the delusion of a fancied industrial renaissance.

Anyone who has tied their assets to the recording industry will be facing some stark choices in the next few years. Those with any sense will get out now, and get out fast.

There is no coming back from this.

The future is free.