Lightning in a Bottle

An article today in the online version of Business Week outlines the efforts by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to promote legislation to help fight music piracy, and the questionable statistics they are using to support their arguments. Why is this a concern to educators? One of the “fixes” that the RIAA has suggested is a special tax on blank CDs that would go the recording industry to make up for music they say has been lost to illegal copying. The levy amounts currently being considered in Canada could increase the cost of blank CDs there by two or three times.

You can read the entire article at http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/030213/tc200302139095_tc078_1.html.

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