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RIAA Denies Hypocrisy in Royalties Dustup
Hairless ape writes "The RIAA is reacting to a story pointing out the group's hypocrisy in its attempts to have songwriter royalties lowered. The issue stems from attempts to get webcasters to pay fixed royalty rates. 'In short, the contention was that the RIAA wanted to pay a percentage of its revenue to songwriters as its profits have fallen, but pushed for a fixed per-stream when it came to earning money from webcasters.' The RIAA says that's not so, and that SoundExchange offered a similar model to webcasters. Either way, the rates sought by the two groups would have bankrupted many webcasters. 'Now you know; it wasn't about hypocrisy, but one of the seven deadly sins may still have been involved.'"
you could/should at least give attribution.
That old joke comes via Mel Brooks in "The History Of The World: Part I"
Practice what you preach...
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Anyone who constantly modifies their religion to try to appeal to current society obviously thinks that they know better than their god. Roman Catholocism isn't really an example of religion, it's an example of crooks trying to take a religion and use it for their own profit (kind of like "health and wealth" or whatever style preachers in the US, who promise life will be all peachy if you become a Christian, despite the bible showing nothing of the sort).
And yes, the list is stupid.
which is totally what she said
Well I wouldn't have said anything except we are talking about the Seven Deadly Sins. So without that line, you end up not having seven, you have a lesser number, with others being redundent.
Besides, someone was pedantic to me.. so there.
I have an idea. Artist royalties should be ZERO, the cost of each music recording should be $100 or higher, the penalty for downloading one MP3 should be the death penalty, and the RIAA should openly keep ALL of the money. That would be in the best interests of both the public and the artists.