said by ThrowDemsOut:said by newview: quote:
"the money has just been delayed due to the complexity of figuring out how to divvy it up"
Translation:We haven't figured out a legal way to screw the artists completely and keep all the money for ourselves.
No. they don't know how to divvy up the money. The fines collected were not tied to music downloaded on specific artists. So, how do they decide who gets how much? No matter how they split it, some artists are going to feel they deserved a bigger piece of the money than other artists. I'd bet money that that is what is holding everything up.
Honestly I bet they don't care. They certainly have to know what songs were "Distributed"(I'll not use the word downloaded) otherwise they wouldn't be able to come up with a money value settlement to begin with. To begin with they can only attempt suits against song sharers who's artists were with RIAA which not all artists are. Thus some songs are off limits. I'll bet it has gotten to the point where they(RIAA) does not keep a database of who's songs where shared/settled thus negating the money split. The artists depend on the RIAA to help them but in actuality they are simply trying to line their own pockets. Many artists are already being screwed by the record labels as it is.
