] When people ask us from where we draw our opinions on
] everything from free music to fee music, we tell them
] look at the past to see what precedents prior media and
] its relationship with the consumer created. We then to
] compare the similarities and differences between the
] contemporary struggles digital media is faced today.
] George Ziemann's latest articles looks back to the
] earliest days of film and record industries and finds
] some amazing (though not surprising) parallels.

Memeing for later reading.. First of four parts.

Thomas Edison, Intellectual Property and the Recording Industry