We’re All a Big Dysfunctional Family

Here’s the load
of bollocks that the president of the National Academy of Recording Arts
and Sciences was carrying on about last night.

Those fools have actually added
a message
forum to their site. For companies, I’m a big advocate of public message
forums. There’s an important rule the Internet follows: ‘If you don’t give
people somewhere to talk about your products and services, they’ll make their
own.’ However, when you’re using a Web site to advocate an (frequently unpopular)
opinion, the last thing you want to do is let other people highjack your site.

Did they really imagine that enough pro-legal download people would visit the message board and rise to the RIAA’s and MPAA’s defence? This board will be drowned in a tidal wave of anti-music industry polemics. I’ve already posted mine. The traffic on this site must be massive. In 6 minutes two people replied to my post.