I’m having this flashback to the days of bashing Microsoft. It was so easy and now I’m feeling the same thing about the RIAA/CRIA.

Michael Geist has posted some stats (released by the recording industry) that directly counters some of the CRIA’s reasons for wanting legislated anti-circumvention (among other culture and rights destroying laws):

… CRIA President Graham Henderson was telling the media that the Canadian digital market was not taking off and that “people are simply abandoning the marketplace altogether, and they’ve made the decision they’ll just download the music and worry about how the artist gets paid later.”

Not so. Canadian digital download sales grew by 122 percent last year, increasing from 6.7 million to 14.9 million (digital albums increased by a similar percentage).

Awake at 6AM and posting about digital downloads. Is there a bigger geek in the world? Well… maybe these guys.

p.s. It’s always funny to see who’s hotlinking to you sometimes. Check out this. Scroll about half-way down. There’s my thumb with the fortune.