Imagine that, Michael Fremer send me a link that isn't political—and it's about records.

"Business, and art, went on like this for years, fleecing the rich.

<I>Meet the new boss:</I> Harman Specialty Group, the division of Harman Consumer Group responsible for the Mark Levinson, Revel, and Lexicon brands, has a new president. John Batliner is a 12-year veteran of the company, and, most recently, executive vice-president of HSG. Wayne Morris, current president of the company, will remain active until the end of April.

Last week, www.stereophile.com posted an article concerning Pollara, Inc.'s Canadian Recording Industry Association&ndash;commissioned <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/032006cria/">144-page report</A> on the downloading habits of Canadian music consumers. We reported that the University of Ottawa's Dr. Michael Geist interpreted the Pollara data <A HREF="http://michaelgeist.ca/component/option,com_content/task,view/id,1168/I…; than the polling group did, in particular noting his conclusion that people who had downloaded music had legally purchased more music than their counterparts who had never done so.