Do you think recording labels see Grokster as a fight for their lives?
That’s exactly how they’ve treated it. They see what the stakes are. They need to find a way to kill this technology. But they’re screwed. All the new profits are coming off the selling of singles digitally while the traditional model of selling records through marketing campaigns directing consumers to music stores is drying up. So now they sue everybody all the time immediately. They understand very well that the economic basis of their dominance of the industry is threatened by these new technologies. To read more on this issue, read Mark Cooper’s new report, Time for the Recording Industry to Face the Music.
