As their latest change in policy, the music industry now only offers low quality audio streams instead of music CDs to critics of the print and movie media corporations.
For quite a while now, the music industry has been accusing the critics of passing on the CDs they have been given. Up to this point, they have not been able to substantiate this claim. Just like with all the other accusations made so far, however, the music industry jumped to conclusions and decided to only pass low quality (32 kbps) audio streams to the media in the future.
However, as the swiss german news paper Der Bund complains, 32kbps are such a horribly bad quality that it doesn't allow the critic to decide if the music is worth listening or not. Thus, Der Bund sees this as another step of the music industry on the road to insignificance.