If the Record Industry Hasn't Been Price Fixing I Haven't Been Masturbating

I mean the audacity of their denial is palpable. It is like arguing in court that the sky is not blue because it is a windowless room, sheerest idiocy of the highest order. Unforgivable. Burn them at the stake! If they're really not colluding, no one will come to put the fire out, and they'll be proven innocent. I know they are damn liars because...

I contacted every one of them about ten years ago and got no response, because I thought we record labels should negotiate up from free (the norm) rather than down from CD prices (so high they limit sales) and guess what? El zilcho, no response whatsoever, because they thought - still think - they need to exist for musical culture to continue. To the contrary, they need to be found guilty, and busted up from their media conglomerates to play fair with those of us who might have started an independent label. Ahem.

Instead, they worked out a sweetheart deal with Apple, held a gun to Napster's head, and generally went about setting the $1/song price for duplicating a digital file that I know for a fact can be downloaded (twenty times an hour for free) on anyone's home computer if they have a mediocre broadband connection. Corporations aren't capitalist at all, they're totalitarians, and anyone who tells you otherwise is a goddamn liar.