This is a totally different issue from the RIAA suing grandmothers when they should be going after the real pirates. This concerns individual songwriters. The company that owns the property gets paid rent, the manufacturers of the equipment were paid, the coffee supplier gets paid. In fact everyone gets paid except the musician and songwriter - and the musician chooses not to get paid. Individual songwriters, many of whom earn mere hundreds of dollars a year or less from their work, lose out when others are clearly profiting from what they do. The distribution system may not be perfect, but the issue is that business owners who profit from the work of songwriters need to pay, just like they pay for every other service they use.
Once again, this is an individual songwriter issue, not an RIAA issue.
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This is a totally different issue from the RIAA suing grandmothers when they should be going after the real pirates. This concerns individual songwriters. The company that owns the property gets paid rent, the manufacturers of the equipment were paid, the coffee supplier gets paid. In fact everyone gets paid except the musician and songwriter - and the musician chooses not to get paid. Individual songwriters, many of whom earn mere hundreds of dollars a year or less from their work, lose out when others are clearly profiting from what they do. The distribution system may not be perfect, but the issue is that business owners who profit from the work of songwriters need to pay, just like they pay for every other service they use.
Once again, this is an individual songwriter issue, not an RIAA issue.
See http://www.record-producer.com/learn.cfm?a=4154 for my further comments.
David Mellor
Record-Producer.com