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From the Vault: That Time USA Today Quoted Me in an Article About the Music Industry’s Freakout Over Downloads

Posted in Esoterica with tags on 05/30/2026 by Kurt Orzeck

I have a strict policy against telling anyone reading this website that I am 47 years old. (Oops.) But my age is relevant to this post because I recently stumbled across a USA Today article in which I was quoted a music editor with a finger on the pulse of the industry. (In reality, I was more of an authority on where to score grocery coupons than on music.)

The USA Today article discussed the music industry’s attempts to ward off music downloading, which at the time was a new phenomenon catching on like AI has in recent years: at hyper-speed, with even the music industry powers-that-be having no idea where the new technology would lead us.

Here is the article in full.

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