I would be pretty damned angry.... (Score 1)

...if I were a stockholder in any of the companies that make up the RIAA, especially the largest ones like Warner and Sony. The Internet and its capabilities are hardly news, and these companies have exerted no effort to use it for the better, or to protect themselves from it. "Where have you been? You let Napster and MP3.com grow out of all control, until you had to go to court and begin all the difficulties of a public trial to defend my interests!" I would ask. "We just thought things could continue as they had been going," they would say. "You guys dropped the ball. Seriously," I would reply. "Caught with yer pants around yer ankles." ***