RIAA

RIAA has lately been firing off warnings, legal notifications and threatening letters to many folks who were not in breach of any copyright laws... Talk about a bull in a china shop! Of course a temp worker gets the blame but really, this is symptomatic of the appalingly hostile way they have treated their (potential) customers these past years...

Instead of working with new technology offered by companies like Napster, they went ahead and tried to exterminate them. Now, they have a multi-headed snake to deal with - had they stuck with Napster they would have had a captive market all to ready to play along if they offered a good deal. Like the good folks are doing at Apple right now, their lines are red-hot from all the music data whizzing through them (oh boy, just wait until they go onto the western PC market, i have a list... such a list...). I suspect RIAA may be left high and dry since they were too stodgy and inflexible to take advantage of what the new technology offered. So many bad feelings towards them now, I suspect they will never get things right again with their customers, I'd hate to have to do their PR work.