Nachdem Janis Ian's The Internet Debacle binnen weniger Tage auf tausenden Seiten erwähnt war, folgt nun der Followup, in dem der Musikindustrie ein konkreter und intelligenter Vorschlag gemacht wird: Hier einige Auszüge: 1. All the record companies get together and build a single giant website, with everything in their catalogues that's currently out of print available on it, and agree to experiment for one year. (...) 2. The site offers only downloads in this part of the experiment. (...) 3. Here's where the difficult part comes in. All the record companies agree that, for the sake of the experiment, and because these items are currently dead in the water anyway, they're going to charge a more-than-reasonable price for each download. (...) 4. Keeping the rate that low would: a. Encourage consumers to use the site, even those of us for whom downloading with a modem is time-consuming and tedious. b. Spread a lot of great old music around (...) 5. Last but not least, the monies received would be portioned out fairly. (...) Es wäre ein guter erster Schritt. Sollte nichts draus werden, gibt es immer noch den StreamRipper, welcher MP3s beliebiger Shoutcast-Streams rippt, samt ID3-Tags. Ein Horror für die RIAA. By the way, kennt jemand da draussen einen empfehlenswerten Shoutcast-Stream?