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BMI Reports All-Time Profit High Despite Piracy
applemasker writes "Arstechnica is running a story chock full of links to other interesting things about BMI's amazing record profit and how the RIAA skews its sales statistics while strangling fair use." Phew, so the artists aren't really starving, but we still can't all go back to "borrowing" music from our friends instead of each purchasing our own copy.
Those Bastards! They did have enough for their 17th corvettes, solid gold diamond encrusted swimming pools and harem full of supermodels after all - that FBI agent LIED to us!
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No, the artists are still starving. BMI is doing well though.
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The entire online community is not your 'friend'.
Unless they mean that piracy can bring an artist's bottom line into existence-- an interesting concept.
"They're pirating our records!"
"How can we get them to buy our records? What's something we can offer that the pirates can't?"
"Ummm... liner notes?"
"Bingo. Let's have $TEEN_FEMALE_SINGER get her butt done and put more pictures in the liner notes of her next album."
So then the label advances $TEEN_FEMALE_SINGER the money for cosmetic surgery on her backside, effecting her bottom line.
Sure, c'mon over. And bring your girlfriend as security deposit like last time.
When was the last time Van Gogh collected a royalty check?
Yeah, so when's the new Van Gogh CD coming out?
Remember that:
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Affect is a verb.
Effect is a noun.
So then the label advances $TEEN_FEMALE_SINGER the money for cosmetic surgery on her backside, affecting her bottom line.
Checkout Grammar for Geeks
Recently, I started attending college and made this same fatal mistake several times in a paper. A quick way to remember the difference is "affect the effect" or "When you affect a situation, you have an effect on it." Overall, you demonstrate good punctuation and writing style.
"You are so convinced that you believe only what you believe that you believe,
that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe without believing you believe it."
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In other news, the RIAA is now lobbying to ban friendship, stating that it has lost over 500 billion dollars in profits in the last month alone. Both major political parties have issued public statements that appear to contain 3-4 pages of dog barking. Ralph Nader issued a 10,000 word rebuttal, filled with outrage but no one seemed to notice. They were too busy watching Celebrity Fear Factor.