In the gartner report, the authors suggested two very disturbing ideas, no stand alone players and DRM installed, in all hardware pc. Failing this, or additionally, it is suggested that the RIAA go the legislative route to solving this problem. Given the that it is pretty clear, that they can not prevent technology from moving forward, I am sure that they redouble their efforts on a DMCAII.

It has been mentioned here before but the purpose of the government is not to save dying business models but to incourage innovation and jobs. The history of the 20th century is littered with businesses that have gone by the way side, telegraph, gas lighting, teletype machines are just a few. I am not one to argue that information is free but a new model is being forced upon the music/movie industry and hiring lawyers/lobbiest is not going to make the problem go away.

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four industries that hate their customers: the airlines, the telephone companies, the music and movie.