Obama DOJ Pick Part of the Problem

When prices are artificially inflated beyond the market price for a product a black market is created to meet the actual Demand for a product at the price that is right for consumers. When tickets for a sporting event are too high they have extra that are sold outside the stadium below ticket price. In economics this is a fundamental truth of a marketplace. So it is for that reason that it is so bewildering that politicians continue to coddle music conglomerates who put out shitty shitty products above Market price. It costs the THREE COMPANIES who distribute NEARLY ALL COMMERCIAL MUSIC about $0.30 to $0.40 to make a CD, if a musician is lucky they get $0.01 to $0.10 for each CD. Where does the other $13.19 go? It certainly isn't to producing quality music. Nor is it towards recruiting new talent. It is profits for these illegal monopolies. Rather than protecting consumers politicians continue to protect these illegal monopolies. It is wrong. via CNET.com President Obama is continuing to fill the senior ranks of the U.S. Department of Justice with the copyright industry's favorite lawyers. Donald Verrilli announced Wednesday that he had been named associate deputy attorney general. Verrilli is the lawyer who pulled the plug on Grokster, sued Google on behalf of Viacom, and represented the Recording Industry Association of America against a Minnesota woman named Jammie Thomas who's accused of illicit file sharing. This follows a string of other pro-copyright industry picks that Obama has made. Last month, there was Obama's selection last month of a top RIAA lawyer--currently squaring off in court with Harvard University's Berkman Center--to be third-in-command at the Justice Department. Vice President Joe Biden has long been an ally of the recording industry, urging the criminal prosecutions of copyright-infringing peer-to-peer users and trying to create a new federal felony involving playing unauthorized music. And another senior Justice Department post has gone to the top antipiracy enforcer for the Business Software Alliance, a strong supporter of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anti-circumvention rules. We allow these companies to illegally hold artistic progress hostage to their corporate greed and for what? We as a society allow these companies to have monopolistic control of the music landscape in violation of several laws, yet our government does their bidding in enforcing those illegal copyrights against us, the people, the lawful citizens. How backward is that? Change indeed. RSS