[geeks] Legal Corporate Music Servers

[Phil Stracchino]

Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Sridhar Ayengar says, about the RIAA ...
> 
>> I have a feeling that they wouldn't be happy even then.  They want to 
>> charge you every time you *remember* or *think about* their music.
> 
> And it's not even _their_ dam' music.  They're just a united front for the
> record companies, whose music it isn't, either.  Neither the RIAA nor the
> record companies care a fig for the people who actually create the stuff.
> Ask Roger McGuinn.

Or any of a hundred others.  Not only do the record companies keep
somehow forgetting to pass the royalties on to the artists, by the time
they get done cooking the books the artists often end up owing the label
money.


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