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In Wired News today

June 16, 2005 by Michael Boyle

In Wired News today

there’s a great interview with Rep Rick Boucher: Lawmaker Revs Up Fair-Use Crusade. From page 2: “I would spend my time as a committee member when I was addressing [record companies] saying, ‘OK, why don’t you do something about it yourself? Why don’t you put your entire inventory up on the web and make it available in a user-friendly format for a reasonable price per track and get away from clinging to this old, outdated business model…'”

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