Squawk Box October 20: Virtual Worlds, plus Entertainment Industry stupidity Conference call organized by Alec Saunders

There's an interesting piece in the Wall Street journal Business Technology blog about whether or not virtual worlds have a place in business communication. We'll discuss that.

It's let's make fun of the entertainment industry day. Three of this morning's stories on techmeme are:

Quote Unquote records is a label that provides it's music under a creative commons license. For the last week, their website has been down, the target of an RIAA copyright complaint. Naturally, they're furious, but their ISP isn't putting the site back up.

And... Blu-ray is bombing. Because of the economic downturn, consumers simply aren't moving to the new, and more expensive, format.

And finally, the RIAA now wants to avoid trial in Maverick v. Harper. They're worried, apparently, that a trial might undermine the bedrock of their copyright infringement cases, which is that "making a file available on a P2P network" constitutes infringement.

Can these guys get any more ridiculous?