According to a late July Reuters/Zogby poll, 44.5% of Americans believe music downloaded off the Internet should be free to everyone, while 34.3% believe people should pay a small price and 21.2% aren’t sure. In other words, no one in America is in favor of the record industry’s current price-gouging. If we actually lived in a democracy, the problem would already be solved.

[from Rock & Rap Confidential/2000]

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