5 posts and columns on Jim Griffin

Warner Music: That “Music Tax for Colleges” Proposal Isn’t Ours (Sort Of). But It Should Be

in Media on December 7, 2008 at 10:14 am PT

Music industry critics rightly castigate the music business for trying too hard, for too long, to hang on to the doomed CD business. Then they howl when music companies try to make money by selling music in other formats. But strip away incendiary terms like “music tax,” and the trial balloon that Warner Music Group is floating makes sense.

P2P Tax to Be Followed by Boston P2P Party?

in News on March 28, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Actually, You're Taxing Our Intelligence …

in News on March 28, 2008 at 5:39 am PT

Back in 2000-2001, when the Recording Industry Association of America was still trying to recover from its CD price-fixing scheme with poorly reasoned justifications for CD price inflation (“Listen, if CD prices were governed by the Consumer Price Index, you’d be paying $33.86 for them instead of $12.75!”), a little company called Napster came calling. [...]

Actually, You’re Taxing Our Intelligence …

in News on March 28, 2008 at 5:39 am PT

Back in 2000-2001, when the Recording Industry Association of America was still trying to recover from its CD price-fixing scheme with poorly reasoned justifications for CD price inflation (“Listen, if CD prices were governed by the Consumer Price Index, you’d be paying $33.86 for them instead of $12.75!”), a little company called Napster came calling. [...]