[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]So, U2’s manager thinks “hippy technology and internet executives” are to blame for declining music sales. According to The Guardian:
“He likened [the technology companies] behaviour to a magazine publisher which "was advertising stolen cars, processing payments for them and arranging delivery".
This follows the controversial launch of Qtrax over the weekend, who claimed to have all four of the big labels signed on to provide a free, ad-supported music service, only to have the record companies reply with a big “huh?” come Monday. Then, you’ve got artists like Jermaine Dupri (and many others) who don’t like the iTunes model of allowing consumers to buy individual tracks. Of course, we’d also be lying if we said consumers aren’t partly to blame, perennially jumping to the next free p2p network to grab free music until the lawyers get it shutdown. Thus, without further ado, today’s poll asks:
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