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Kazaa, Verizon Propose Compulsory Music Licensing
akb writes "USA Today is reporting on an interesting new alliance between Kazaa, the dominant file sharing network, and Verizon, a company with revenues of $67 billion. The two companies are floating a proposal to ISPs and the computer and manufacturing industries to lobby to force the music industry to license their music. Royalties would be payed to artists directly, thus circumventing the stranglehold the RIAA has on the music industry."
Statements like
Who does the RIAA benefit? themselves?
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however, now it seems that the RIAA doesn't even acknowledge the artists anymore.
only go to show what you don't really know:
That is that the RIAA is a secret Iraqui agency working for Saddam Hussein. What seems to be the RIAA's plan to take over the world is really Saddam trying to take over the world. All that money that supposedly goes to the "artists" is really funneled into an Iraqui weapons program. I mean, what really happens to the artists anyway? Just look at people like Vanilla Ice, Weird Al Yankovic and Marky Mark from Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. THEY were really killed to hide the truth after their money was secretly sent to Saddam. The next thing you know, he'll be commanding all the world's computers using something called "Brilliant Digital Projector..."
Or, it could just be a scheme run by The Brain from Pinky and the Brain.
thus circumventing the stranglehold the RIAA has on the music industry
No! I can not say anything nice about Verizon! I'll seize to be! Curses.. foiled.. gahh.... getting dark...
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You know it's going to be Celine Dion and Charlie Pride too. Good thing I have a Mac, so that it will break when they make me listen to that junk....
Well, yeah... But it's a rather grand assumption to suggest that I like to work, but I haven't found anyone who'll pay me to do nothing.
Concerts are not charities for bands, they're social events that go way beyond the band...
What? You're saying that these are social events that go way beyond the band. I.e., people go to concerts because they are social events, not because of the band. This is good news for people like Britney that, despite having no talent, will still be able to earn plenty of money by providing a social event to the public.
No more naive then expecting people to continue to pay $20 for something they can download for free.
Sounds good to an outsider, but run this up on someone who it's going to affect and they're likely to have some different opinions.
Yeah, they're used to rolling in money and for the most part doing very little. Now they'll probably earn less and might actually have to work. Bummer. Sounds almost like MY life.