[geeks] Legal Corporate Music Servers

Sandwich Maker adh at an.bradford.ma.us
Thu May 28 21:47:08 CDT 2009


" From: Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
" 
" 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.

hey, it's -just-business-.

people have ethics, consciences, etc.  corporations have lawyers.
that's the system.
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