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| You can't grants licenses for other people's works This is wrong for a lot of reasons.
I don't download music, iTunes or otherwise, and I don't want to pay an extra $5.
The artists who wrote songs for RIAA certainly didn't provide for this in their contract, and they'll probably get the same percentage they've gotten from the RIAA settlements.
Independent music artists not affiliated with the RIAA don't want their music downloaded, but this $5 protection fee implies to people that they can download whatever they want. The RIAA certainly doesn't represent movie or television producers.
iTunes doesn't want a competitor like that... if people are already forced to pay $5 to download what they want, why are they gonna pay more to get it from iTunes? Not to mention the less popular music services.
This is an attempt by the RIAA to stay in the cash loop somehow. They aren't representing artists, and they aren't doing much for the companies that pay their lawyers. If they can't provide value or siphon more money off of consumers, music companies will stop supporting them and they'll have to get real jobs chasing ambulances. |
