Interesting Tim O'Reilly article.

From: Dan Wright <dtwright_at_uiuc.edu>
Date: Mon Dec 16 09:51:01 2002

Wayne M. Smith said:
>
> It's not just the top 40 mainstream artists, it's the tens of thousands that
> they employ. To the end, there have been substantial layoffs in the music
> business over the past two years. Warner/Elektra/Atlantic just laid off
> another bunch.
>

<sarcasm>OH NO! The record industry just LAID PEOPLE OFF! There are
absolutely NO OTHER companies doing that right now! It MUST be because of the
EVIL MUSIC PIRATES and have NOTHING to do with the state of the
economy!</sarcasm>

- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)

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