August Abolins wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 AA> Hi Roy (of 1:270/615),
 AA> On Sun, 11 May 03 at 04:06 o'clock, you wrote me:

 AA>> Let me know if you get my NETMAIL !!!!
 RJT> Yeah I did,  several of them,  in fact.    I responded to the
 RJT> first one (as they appeared here),  before I saw the rest.

 AA> Excellent.  The files weren't that big afterall.  The pure text
 AA> version seemed like the best way to do it afterall.

I noticed a bit of contradiction in there,  like how in the one case they
were saying that there wasn't really any way they could do some stuff, 
while in the next post it was saying that they were doing exactly those
things...

It's an interesting situation,  for sure.  We have whole big industries, 
both film and music,  who are standing at the edge of a precipice,  and
getting nudged from behind.  Things are changing that much,  and that fast.

One radio station I sometimes listen to has live artists on the air on a
regular basis,  and I heard one singer-songwriter comment the other day
about how she wasn't in any particular rush to get her next cd released. 
How the actual creative process was more important to her now than the
economics of the thing,  which had been a dominant factor before.  (This
strikes me as a good thing!)  One line that sticks in my memory is her
saying "You can't compete with free"...

They try to throw government power at it,  legislation,  etc. and it's not
going to work.  I can't say I blame them for trying,  but...

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