MP3s and the music industry

Today in the online edition of The New York Times, the paper highlighted file-swapping in its Readers' Opinions section. In the section, entitled Steal This Music?, some NY Times worker has gone through the Technology in the News forum, taken soundbites on the current music industry controversy, and put them onto less than two online pages.

Here is my favorite quote (especially the last sentence):
Westernblot: "I am a recording artist, with several dozen albums in print (and, of course, in discount bins collecting dust in used CD stores). I am thrilled when someone downloads my music, and not at all appalled . . . That the R.I.A.A. and their pals ultimately have no control over Internet technologies galls them no end. Can they sue 70,000,000 Americans? Jail a tenth of them? A hundredth of them? At least the penal industry looks to be a solid growth sector in the years to come . . . Neither downloading nor hometaping will kill music. Obsolete business paradigms and wrong-headed, heavy-handed practices are doing the job quite nicely."