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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. 99 Cents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    To such my frosty balls.

  2. authors get 20% royalties?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You be on crack.

    The number is that high only if you include Hillarrhea Clinton's non-recoupable $8 million advance, before the first book was sold. There are only a few hundred authors that ever make even a thousand bucks off their book.

    Of course, Simon and Schuster knew they wouldn't make anything off Clinton's "Living His Story," I'm sure they considered it just another payoff or campaign contribution.

  3. Re:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAh by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 0, Troll

    GO FUCK YOURSELF, MORON
    fuck you in your fucking fuck, you fuck-fucking fuck-fucker.

    --
    -- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All