Wow.<p><pre><code> Mitch Glazier, the president of the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA), said in a statement: “As
legendary band the Grateful Dead once said in an iconic pre
1972 song, ‘what a long strange trip it’s been.’ It’s been
an epic odyssey, and we’re thrilled to almost be at our
destination.
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That took some real chutzpah to quote the Grateful Dead, a band who's success was predicated on bootleg recordings, and one of who's band members founded the EFF, which adamantly opposes extending additional copyrights to pre-1972 material. Given the open and contentious debate surrounding music copyrights, I doubt it was a coincidence.