[JayBdey]

A fair system cannot exist while the RIAA and the record companies are still around. Nothing but the complete dissolve of the recording industry and a complete reconstruction will save music.

They business model that they have been using has been refined, tweaked, and crafted to funnel the most money to the RIAA and the labels. Artists receive little, if anything from CD sales.

When you have money (heaps and heaps of it) and it just keeps coming, and then it stops, your going to be angry and fight to restore your way of life.

They see a threat to their income, so they're doing anything they can to stop it. It's much easier to fight to keep the old system alive then it would be to make a new, fair system. But fair means that the artists would get paid, so you can bet there will be some pissed off CEOs (and lawyers too).