For those of you who are interested.

Powerpoint presentation delivered by Recording Industry Association of America CEO Mitch Bainwol on August 12, during a meeting of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers.

They claim that lawsuits against P2P users are a "positive outcome". Certainly not a positive outcome on the user-end of the deal

Personally, I think that the RIAA could be doing much better things to prevent piracy rather than file lawsuits left-and-right. The RIAA should be working with the record labels to develop the best copy-protected CD that they can make. Obviously that wouldn't be completely effective; so they should also be helping to promote the plethora of legal music downloading services available, and launch a massive, national campaign (TV, print, billboard, etc.) highlighting the problems of P2P and legal alternatives. While illegal file-sharing will still remain, the public still needs to be warned. A large chunk of the illegal downloaders don't even realize that it's illegal.

What a crap presentation.

“…you can’t charge me $20.00 for a crappy CD that
lasts 45 minutes long…”

Page 48. I agree.

Indeed. Particularly when selling digital music from say the iTMS you need to have prices go down.

Somebody get that guy the "Beyond Bullets" book. Ick background, too many bullet points, ugly, and hard to read...

Oh and slide 8? "Music" image may not have been in the tank, but the survey didn't mention "RIAA" or they didn't care to include that in the presentation. "Fair use 'theology' run amok"???

It obvious from the presentation they still are not embracing the digital age. My music comes from iTunes. Weighing all the options, this is the way I choose to purchase and consume my music. It's a tiny percent, yes, but they've barely given it chance and they arn't trying to expand it, leaving it to stay a tiny percent...

<<Canadian...still downloading music like a maniac!

Since when do "PowerPoint" presentations have a ".pdf" file extension? I thought PowerPoint used .ppt (for presentations), .pps (for slide shows), .pot (for templates). Also that .pdf files were file of the Protable Document Format (which is what Adobe Acrobat Reader reads).

Its a ppt file that has been turned into a pdf by the looks of things.

I assume when it was orginally presented to whoever he was showing it to, it was a Powerpoint presentation. This is likely the web-friendly version.

I know that, but I was talking about the topic's title which says "RIAA CEO's Powerpoint Presenation" and then includes a link to a .pdf file.