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said by NOVA_Guy :

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Everyone involved with music already makes enough money

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Actually, not everyone involved with music makes enough money. The actual artist make pennies on the dollar for the music they write/sing/perform.

An exaggerated point is that for the $1-million an artist' CD will make, the Recording industry ass. of America takes over $900K out of it and leaves the remaining $100K to be divided among the actual artist, promotional expenses, and every other "little person" who helped make that CD.

And should "piracy" start to eat away at the profits, the Industry just takes those "lost sales" out of the $100K and not their own $900K.

Like that commercial for the MPAA with Ben affleck that says "dont pirate, it hurts the little people". Well if the studios didnt pay the actors such outrageous wages for just learning a script that another harder worker spent time writing, it might not be so bad. Sean connery made only $100K for his first movie "Dr. No" in 1962, but in 2003 he was paid $17-million for League of Extrordinary Gentlemen. Now that is some serious "cost of living" increase...

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There needs to be a new entity to replace the RIAA, that's all so unfair to the artists and crews who do all the work. Administration makes 9/10's of the profits, and that's just plain lame.
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said by NOVA_Guy :

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Everyone involved with music already makes enough money

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Actually, not everyone involved with music makes enough money. The actual artist make pennies on the dollar for the music they write/sing/perform.

An exaggerated point is that for the $1-million an artist' CD will make, the Recording industry ass. of America takes over $900K out of it and leaves the remaining $100K to be divided among the actual artist, promotional expenses, and every other "little person" who helped make that CD.

And should "piracy" start to eat away at the profits, the Industry just takes those "lost sales" out of the $100K and not their own $900K.

Like that commercial for the MPAA with Ben affleck that says "dont pirate, it hurts the little people". Well if the studios didnt pay the actors such outrageous wages for just learning a script that another harder worker spent time writing, it might not be so bad. Sean connery made only $100K for his first movie "Dr. No" in 1962, but in 2003 he was paid $17-million for League of Extrordinary Gentlemen. Now that is some serious "cost of living" increase...
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With exceptions of course - playing a radio station in a business in order to create atmosphere obligates the business to pay royalties.

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