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Artists Protesting Single-Song Downloads

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-artists dept.

prostoalex writes "The 99 cent downloads are stirring some discussion in the music community. Linkin Park, Radiohead, Madonna, Jewel and Green Day are protesting music stores' policy of single-song downloads and introduce some stipulations, requiring their work to be sold as albums. "The fear among artists is that the work of art they put together, the album, will become a thing of the past," says attorney Fred Goldring, whose firm represents Will Smith and Alanis Morissette."

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  1. I'm really out of the loop... by MungoBBQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Am I the only one who read the sentence "The 99 cent downloads are stirring some discussion in the music community." and thought that "99 cent" was some new hip-hop artist I hadn't heard of?

  2. In Other News: by iCEBaLM · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linkin Park, Radiohead, Madonna, Jewel and Green Day are protesting music listeners policy of single-song listening.

    Billie Joe Armstrong, the lead singer for Green Day was quoted as saying: "We made all of those songs on our album and arrainged them in an order. You should listen to them from the first track to the last, that's how we intended them to be listened to. Listening to just one track in the middle is classified a derivative work and we will sue you fools! Now pass the bong Tre."

  3. What we really need by nexus987 · · Score: 5, Funny

    What we really need is a way to just buy parts of songs. Like the chorus or the verse. Hell, I'd just like to buy the first four measures of a couple of songs. That's worth probably $.05 or $.10, right?