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Jennifer Pariser (who is Sony BMG’s chief litigator) thinks she has found the perfect scape-goat for the continued decline of the recording industy - and funnily enough it’s the same scape-goat that music execs have always blamed ever since the days of “Home taping is killing music“:

“It’s my personal belief that Sony BMG is half the size now as it was in 2000, … thanks to piracy… when people steal, when they take music without compensation, we are harmed.”

An alternative explanation is that her company has declined because Sony BMG’s business model is no-longer relevant. We might also point out that since 2000 the record companies have invested all their limited intelligence in devising technology such as DRM or CDs with root-kits that take-over your computer, technologies which serve no purpose other than causing annoyance to people who might otherwise become Sony BMG customers.

Rather than develop new methods to engage and entertain music fans the record companies have been led by bunker-mentality lawyers like Ms Pariser who have guaranteed that companies like Sony BMG will have no role in the future of music distribution.

Why buy an official product from Sony BMG when the exact same recording can be bought from iomoio.com for a fraction of the price and without any of the annoying encumbrances. The market has found a price for music, and it’s about ten times less than what Sony BMG want to charge us. History shows that one cannot ignore the market for long before having to face the inevitable financial consequences:

As one commentator on Digg said: “I can’t wait for those idiots to go bankrupt“.