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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: riaa</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/riaa.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2007-07-05T12:03:58+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Quoting Fake Steve Jobs</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/5/fake/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-07-05T12:03:58+00:00</published><updated>2007-07-05T12:03:58+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/5/fake/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    &lt;blockquote cite="http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/07/music-industry-nobs-have-finally.html"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The music companies are in a dying business, and they know it. Sure, they act all cool because they hang around with rock stars. But beneath all the glamour these guys are actually operating two very low-tech businesses. One is a form of loan-sharking: they put up money to make records, then force recording artists to pay the money back with exorbitant interest. The other business is distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p class="cite"&gt;&amp;mdash; &lt;a href="http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/07/music-industry-nobs-have-finally.html"&gt;Fake Steve Jobs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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