In Response: How to Kill the Music Industry

This is in response to the article titled "How to Kill the Music Industry" by guest-columnist Jens Roland @ torrentfreak.com

Her views on mainstream music vs personal file-sharing are keen and intelligent. 

My response:

Honestly, I agree with what you've said about the industry trying to peddle their product much too far by charging for every little piece of it. How can they blame the decrease in album sales on p2p, and - for some reason - specifically The Pirate Bay, when they have whittled their purchasing power by allowing the sale of such undersized product.  

The Music industry is probably plotting to attempt the take down of one torrent "heavy-hitter" in hopes that the rest will follow out of the fear of the same fate. I can't see this ending well for the music industry until they start looking at the infrastructure. Ironically enough, that happens to be what the world's economy needs right now. *ahem* What it is i'm trying to get at is that perhaps the music industry needs to take an awkward-long look at themselves and their surroundings, and take a big fat hint. The one that's been staring them in the face since the Napster-fiasco in '00.  

Don't get me wrong, Metallica were right. Their music was being shared between thousands of people. But no one was making any money. How are they supposed to sue for the money they lost? I credit it to their own undoing (the band was having a rough time, their interpersonal issues, and not to mention, the cd sucked).  

Things don't look up for the music industry right now, Unless you happen to be The Jonas Brothers or Mylie Cyrus.