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Musicians, Go Home

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Musicians, Go Home by Brad King

3:00 p.m. Jun. 21, 2000 PDT

SAN DIEGO -- Musicians and their managers are impeding technological advances that would curb digital music piracy, a wireless expert said Wednesday at a conference on music and the Internet.

Drawing rousing applause throughout his speech, Onehouse.com CEO Jim Griffin said the recording industry has created a digital world that is difficult to navigate and has failed to provide consumers with products they are willing to pay for.

"The refusal of artists and their management to put a price tag on their music, with a description of where that money will be going and whom we should make the check out to, and then responsibly collecting that money, has gotten in the way of progress," Griffin said at the MP3 Summit here.

The problem is particular to the United States, Griffin said.

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