RIAA Cooks

Friday, May 14, 2004

Boing Boing: RIAA’s funny bookkeeping turns gains into losses

This very good, short article shows the way that the RIAA cooks its books to create losses due to file-sharing when there’s no indication that file-sharing is costing them money.

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