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Record Labels May Have to Pay Double Royalties
douglips writes "News.com.com.com brings us this article explaining how record labels may be bitten by CD copy protection. At issue is the mechanism that places duplicate WMA tracks on the CD. The labels are thus selling two copies of each song, and may be required to pay twice as much to music publishers. So not only is the DRM ineffective, it also could be a huge legal liability for labels."
I fail it muthafuckaz
gnaa can kiss my ass
This problem wouldn't happen if freeloaders wouldn't insist on downloading and uploading music illegally online. Thanks a lot for all the problems you're causing, freeloaders. I hope you feel very proud now.
NM
While we're all gloating over this admittedly funny situation the labels have put themselves in, rest assured that this cost will only get passed on to the artists eventually. Either artists will have to give up these types of royalties in the future, or they'll get used in some other way (maybe increasing hidden costs like legal fees or higher interested on artist advances, or perhaps just worse royalty agreements in the first place).
The end result is that this is a minor hiccup, one the labels are more than willing to trade in their effort to screw Joe P2P User or Joe Casual CD Borrower or Joe Fair Use User.
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Ha. My IP isn't banned anymore. Well, it wasn't before I posted this. See you fucking Your'a'pee'in towel-head loving toilet nuggets in 3 days!
Don't send a worthless piece of European dog shit to do a man's job. Whether it's Mars, Iraq, the Soviet Union, Hitler, whatever the hell have you: All Europeans are as worthless as the French pussies who are stinking up that woebegone continent.
Attention all You're-a-Pee'ins: Just commit mass suicide NOW and let the adults who are actually RUNNING this planet go about it without all the annoying CARPING from the children running Europe.
I've licensed material to Warner Bros. and Sony, and have been paid well.
So your Mom blows record execs, and you're proud of this?