It is true that seeking legal action won't bring back the original Master tapes, but we need to see Universal Music pay dearly for this. Sorry for the language, but what kind of fucking idiots gather the most important music ever recorded, essentially America's and the world's cultural history, and put's it in the middle of a stupid amusement park? Universal Music and all the fucking idiots who ran it, still do, and continue to pat themselves on the back and give each other awards for "A Job Well Done."
I understand getting angry accomplishes nothing constructive. So, we need to look forward to what can be done at this point. But I don't see how we do this now until Universal Music is held to account. UMG cannot today after 11 years even say what exactly was lost. And we need to know this if the music industry expect's us to buy anything in the future. Just what exactly are we buying?
We need a paradigm shift in Hollywood's thinking how materials from the 20th and 21st century are handled. Obviously they're not able to handle the most basic but important job of protecting their Intellectual property. Suing Grandma in 2005 for downloading a few mp3s at Napster didn't accomplish anything. Protecting the original Master tapes was Universal Music's one simple job, and they failed miserably.
But what about the tapes that do exist now? Are things just going to go back to normal with no one in charge? No money spent right now backing up tapes? We're just one more fire away from losing more music.
