TechDirt's Masnick Responds To Warner's Jim Griffin On Choruss 81
newtley writes "TechDirt's Mike Masnick writes that the Warner Music Choruss licensing scheme amounts to a Bait-And-Switch operation. Not so, says Jim Griffin, the man charged to put it together. Masnick's story is 'factually incorrect in every respect,' he states. But Griffin 'refused to name a single factual mistake,' Masnick says, noting, 'He fails to address the key problems that we outlined: 1. Why is this program even needed when plenty of musicians are coming up with business models that work today and don't need a new mandatory license (er... 'covenant not to sue') plan? 2. Why do we need a new bureaucracy and won't that divert funds? 3. Will the industry continue to try to shut down file sharing sites? 4. Will the industry continue to push a 3 strikes plan?'"
Re:Who Says What? (Score:4, Informative)
What are the criteria you use to define music filesharing as 'endemic'? The ownership of a personal computer and an Internet connection? What is your proof of all this epidemic of unauthorised music filesharing? Cites please. RIAA sources don't count.
As for RIAA claiming infringements and unauthorised downloads, they've been known to sue dead people, senile grandmothers in nursing homes that never had access to a computer in their life, and preteens. Definitely did their research there.
Nice astroturfing, btw. Now go away before I taunt you with facts again.