Congressman Berman is obviously getting some of the wealth the industry is spending on lobbyists. If they'd work on child porn or something with redeeming social benefits, I'd be happier.
Until the Japanese bought some of the US music archives you just couldn't get anything put out on old release LP's. But now the Japanese (Sony, for example) have put out vast numbers of reissues of LP's on CD. It's wonderful--but they are pricey.
Some kind of compromise will come out of all this. They don't have enough resources to capture the thousands of people like my 12 year old neighbor who has been downloading and burning mp3 CD's since he was 9.
