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The Sony Crap-o-Matic iPod dock...

Everyone is up in arms in the sub-tech community (the community that tinkers with Linux and refuses to pay for anything) over the DMCA and the RIAA and the resulting "Pay for your music, damn it!" attitude they take.

I have a solution that would make the music industry come out with what little dignity they have left:

Stop selling music. It has no value anymore as a commodity.

Stop recording mass-produced crap. Clearly, your customer base largely doesn't appreciate it enough to pay for it. Move on to other industries. Maybe those record company execs can get a job at Unicef or Greenpeace and use their clear mastery of the courtroom for good and go after polluters and dolphin killers.

It's too easy for people to "steal" music. It's really easy for me to breathe, hence why I don't get charged per-breath. If it's too easy, why should you pay for it? Funny how that got overlooked.

Music lives on in profit by means of live performances and licensed broadcasting (i.e. radio, events, etc.)

People wonder why I don't have a huge collection of MP3's that I downloaded for free? Because there's nothing out there I want out in the first place that isn't already free. I'll pay for anything I really want to keep from being a target of that industry, despite the fact that I thoroughly despise their tactics and principals. They have more lawyers than I do.

Gregsta'