Oh dear what a pity never mind.

The RIAA is on the skids. The record companies are pulling support at a fantastic rate; what will be left will be a smaller group composed of pieces of the RIAA, IFPI and BPI. Still pursuing DRM and similar pixie dust. Remember when you’d only ever heard those four letters as the reason your turntable sounded tinny plugged into the wrong inputs?

5 thoughts on “Oh dear what a pity never mind.

  1. The article says that it was actually a good thing – an international standard replacing lots of different ones.

  2. All of that pre-emphasis de-emphasis sciency talk is just their cover story. It was actually their first, primitive attempt at DRM using analog technology.

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