Quote Of The Week: Rationales For Slumping Sales

"The record business has come up with some fascinating rationales for their slumping sales. For example, imagine if General Motors started to assess some of the reasons for declining sales and they came up with:

• People selling used cars
• People buying third party parts
• People buying parts at junk yards.

So, they started to lobby for laws against the second hand sale of their products. Envision the post office declaring that mail was its intellectual property and starting to sue the providers and users of email."

– Hank Bordowitz, author of "Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business: Why So Much Music You Hear Sucks."