] Recording artists across the board think the music
] industry should find a way to work with the Internet
] instead of suing people who have downloaded music.
]
] "They're protecting an archaic industry," said the
] Grateful Dead's Bob Weir. "They should turn their
] attention to new models."
]
] "This is not rocket science," said David Draiman of
] Disturbed, a hard-rock band with a platinum debut album
] on the charts. "Instead of spending all this money
] litigating against kids who are the people they're trying
] to sell things to in the first place, they have to learn
] how to effectively use the Internet."

Wayne Coyne's quote towards the end of the article is great:
"I don't know that there's any one factor behind the industry," said Coyne. "Maybe it's downloading, or maybe people just didn't feel like buying so many records. So Metallica makes $10 million instead of $20 million, who cares? To me, the sympathy is unwarranted. Some of this is just the hazard of doing business. It's the nature of the world. At the end of the day, it's just rock and roll. It isn't that big of a deal."

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