Comment Re:About time... (Score 1) 568
CountBrass is right. The RIAA helps makes the music and image of the musicians "cool", but this does absolutely nothing for the image of the RIAA.
This is similar to the state that Microsoft is already in. Take, for example, the PDA market: Ipaq's are "cool", accessible to a relatively small segment of society with disposable income, and their presence and popularity is has been facilitated in-large-part by Microsoft (via the PocketPC push). But Microsoft itself, is not connected with this "coolness factor". No one says, "Sweet! You're running PocketPC 2003".
This is similar to the state that Microsoft is already in. Take, for example, the PDA market: Ipaq's are "cool", accessible to a relatively small segment of society with disposable income, and their presence and popularity is has been facilitated in-large-part by Microsoft (via the PocketPC push). But Microsoft itself, is not connected with this "coolness factor". No one says, "Sweet! You're running PocketPC 2003".
