RECORDING ENGINEERS QUARTERLY PRESENTS
		JUNE 2004

Each week or so our lovable technical editor, Frank G, searches the web for links with everything from cool gadgets and free plugins, to things and places only an audio person could love. FrankG always impresses with well-thought-out logic from an alternative viewpoint.  This month is no different, as gives his viewpoint on  Why Technology Sucks and the Music Industry is doomed:

You see, the more available and accessible technology gets, the better things are supposed to get. Remember the Jetsons? We should all have flying cars that fold up into a briefcase when we get to work (though they still parked the car in the garage at night...why?) Technology should be working to improve our lives. So, what happened?

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Frank also investigates the record companies beating up on the consumer: Skulls and Crossbones everywhere!.

Has anyone purchased a cd lately?  Not from the corner of 8 Mile and Greenfield, I mean from a store.   There's a new FBI/RIAA warning taking up about 1/3 of the back cover art, telling you about the evils of file sharing and downloading music.   Maybe I'm not paying attention, but if I just BOUGHT the @#$%ing cd, WHY are they threatening ME - the PAYING customer - with legal hassles and general badness?  In theory, this is supposed to shame the people who upload the music and make it available into not doing so.   Here's a secret:  the people doing the uploading are NOT doing it from a retail copy.

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