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To: LindyBill who wrote (13031)	10/19/2003 3:24:30 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793696

well you know what I think, I think the film industry is going to weather this file sharing storm just fine, because unlike music they have dealt with "potential for theft" before, and back then there was the same brouhaha and in the end, it was much ado about nothing. I'm talking about the first move to VCRs and renting in the 80s... where unlike music you could very easily copy VCR to VCR and distribute a film to your friends which was almost as good as the real thing. For music copying until lately you had to go radio to cassette or CD to cassette and here you were stuck with an inferior cassette. So music never had to deal with this IP theft issue to the degree that film did. It seems to me that the film industry puts out a quality product at the right price and if you do that and continually try to improve technology is your friend. Music otoh is the media version of microsoft... nothing new in years but higher and higher prices. The fact that Clay Aiken, a guy discovered on a talent show, can have the #1 CD for sale at Amazon for weeks is indicative of the plight of the music industry. They have no idea who their customer is, and how to profit from it. Hopefully the RIAA gets put out of its misery soon.