Is Recording Industry Killing The Goose That Streamed The Golden Egg?

Once Upon A Time, there was a recording industry organization that had a goose that streamed a golden egg every day. Things were going pretty well for their members. Each day their organization would take the golden egg to
the Copyright Royalty Board and get a very handsome, multi-faceted, return on investment.

One day though, the recording industry thought, why wait for the goose to stream just one golden egg each day, ‘let’s take all the golden eggs to the Copyright Royalty Board at once.’ So, they cut open the goose looking for all the golden eggs, and of course, there were none. They were left with no golden eggs and, worst of all, no goose to stream them.

– Mark Allen, The Washington State Assoc. Of Broadcasters via R.A.I.N.