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Elbonia | reply to ShootToThril
Re: ok.... said by Bono :
A decade’s worth of music file-sharing and swiping has made clear that the people it hurts are the creators — in this case, the young, fledgling songwriters who can’t live off ticket and T-shirt sales like the least sympathetic among us — and the people this reverse Robin Hooding benefits are rich service providers, whose swollen profits perfectly mirror the lost receipts of the music business.
Is he lying or deluded?
The creators who are indentured serfs of the record companies have no stake in anti-piracy, as they have already sold their copyrights. And those who are not on major labels, and keep their copyrights, generally welcome the exposure. It's incredible that the public can still be fooled by this appeal to artists' interests, as if major-label artists got more than a few pennies per $16 CD.
It's true that ISPs are getting rich, but it's not because of filesharing, it's because they are local monopolies or oligopolies.
The best thing for the music business - meaning actual musicians - would be for the rich, greedy, control-freak middle-man industry to die and stop sucking their blood. Fortunately, filesharing is helping to make that happen. |
