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News Archive -- 2004 Following a spectacular failure the summer before, I lost direction and interest in music during 2004. There were only four articles that I had saved from that year. Why the RIAA Likes the Per-Song Model Feb 3, 2004 -- As I wait patiently for the RIAA's top-notch accounting and fiction writing team to serve up the year-end statistics for our amusement and derisive comments, I'm giving this compulsory licensing thing a lot of thought. After reading the analysis of Prof. Fisher's compulsory licensing plan, I really don't understand the RIAA's reluctance to be pushing that route. It's like guaranteed income for them, just by virtue of the fact that they own most of the music out there. Fisher cut them into a $1.68 billion piece of pie that many of us think they don't deserve in the first place. Why Radio is History March 2004 -- Some people (mainly the Recording Artists Coalition) think that radio is the key to breaking the strangehold of the RIAA. They must have better drugs than I do. Shermans' Statement Rife with Deception March 11, 2004 -- You'd think Martha Stewart's recent conviction for lying to the government would have persuaded the RIAA to tone down some of its deceptive, misleading and outright false characterizations, at least for a while. Ignorance Was Bliss April 28, 2004 -- I'm really trying hard to find a positive aspect about the music business right now but the harder I look, the more I see that disturbs me. The disillusionment is probably similar to what some children experience when confronted with the facts about Santa. These sort of illuminatory moments are always following by the plaguing feeling, or sometimes the direct question, "What else have they lied to me about?"